[Asterisk-Dev] GPL Violation http://www.asteriskwin32.com/

Paul digium-list at 9ux.com
Tue Apr 12 09:11:29 MST 2005


James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

>On Apr 11, 2005 9:01 PM, Greg Boehnlein <damin at nacs.net> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Brian West wrote:
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>>>I have tried to get the patches for the Asterisk Win32 project.  This
>>>guy offers a binary download and installer for Asterisk for Win32.  Its
>>>been over two weeks since my request and I have yet to get a response.
>>>
>>>Please email athoris at asteriskwin32.com and request the patches...
>>>
>>>Not that I would run it... its just a clear violation of the GPL.
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>>As of last week, the patches had still not been posted to his website.
>>Haven't checked today.
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>This is an obvious violation of the GPL. All he has to do is post a
>tar ball of his source code tree. No patches needed, just the whole
>thing. It would take 5 mins max to do.
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If bandwidth costs are a factor, he can use something like sourceforge 
to make the binaries AND source available to the public.

So there is no excuse that I can think of.




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