Asterisk licensing (was Re: [Asterisk-Dev] voicemail message number limits)

[Steve Totaro]

> 
> Yes, I don't see why not sign it.
> Many projects (but not the linux kernel) even implicitly rely on the 
> fact that trivial patches or small additions are given to the author by 
> relinquishing (not sure of the word) copyright to the project admin. 
> That also has the advantage that if someone rips some code off asterisk 
> into a propriatary application without authorization, you don't have to 
> search for all the copyright owner to go and  claim their rights.
> 
> More, if even for any reason Digium decides to close asterisk out of 
> GPL, I can bet that 5 min later a fork would appear based on the last 
> GPL code ...
> 
> 
> Also, actually IIRC, it's possible to link gpl code with non gpl code as 
> long as you don't redistribute the binaries. So I can link mysql with 
> g729 if I want as long as I don't redistribute the resulting binary.
> 
> 
> Sylvain


Just look at Pingtel.  They tried proprietary and are now Open Source.