[Asterisk-Dev] voicemail message number limits

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

But that is not the only reason, is it?

Under the same thought signing away your rights to the work lets 
digum to take asterisk out of gpl at will, perhaps after the open 
source community has made it a viable and over all profitable 
software platform?

I think the licensing is just a ruse to steal the software in a legal 
way at some future date while allowing them to keep a public domain 
source branch they can do as they please with, IMHO.


On 24 Jul 2004 at 20:04, Jeremy McNamara wrote:

> Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 24 July 2004 18:53, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
> > 
> >>This is not an entirely true statement.  Mark Spencer needs to keep the
> >>copyrights clean for the Asterisk source tree, so things like G.729 and
> >>the ability to link to Open H.323 can exist.
> > 
> > 
> > ... you can't have the g.729 or oh323 stuff in a shared lib and access them 
> > that way without violating their licenses?
> 
> 
> The GPL does not allow you to link with non-gpl libraries.  Hence why 
> mark has to have the ability to offer exceptions to the GPL.
> 
> G.729 (Proprietary license)
> Open H.323 (MPL)
> OpenSSL (Their own open license)
> Dialogic support (Non-open license, non-open channel driver)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremy McNamara
> 
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