[Asterisk-Dev] Questions

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:17:34PM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Brian K. West wrote:
> >If I read this right this is ABE only and locks anyone wanting to use
> >Asterisk with Dialogic cards would have to buy an ABE license.  This also
> >takes away the freedom of being able to really make a flexible solution
> >based on Asterisk because you don't get the source code that ABE is 
> >compiled
> >with thus you're stuck.
> 
> This does not 'take away' any freedom at all.

For me binary-only is spelled as p-r-o-b-l-e-m-s . You're locked into a
specific combination someone else chose for you[0]. 

> 
> The fact is that the libraries used as part of the Intel/Dialogic Global 
> Call API are NOT licensed in a way that makes them compatible with GPL 
> software. As such, there cannot exist a channel driver for GPL Asterisk 
> that connects to those libraries, unless Intel chose to change the 
> license of those libraries. That is their decision, not ours, yours, or 
> anyone else's to make.

Right. However now there is even less pressure on Intel to give a decent
license for that API. Day dreaming? maybe. Intel here is still into 
selling cards, not software.

[0] I do distribute a binary-only Asterisk distribution, but with the 
    complete source, and means to rebuild it to a binary.

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