[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk and GlobalCall

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:33:14AM +0200, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
> "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at digium.com> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Well, there would be no (licensing) problems in writing a GPL'ed channel
> driver for the GlobalCall API; the source for such a driver would not be
> considered a derived work of the Intel libraries just by accessing a
> published API. However, such a driver would only be distributable in
> source form, not in binary form (since the binary would be a derived
> work of both Asterisk and Intel libraries). That would make it somewhat
> inconvenient to work with.

If  I understand you correctly, such a driver could not be distributable.
Period. Unless you build and use it with a non-GPL-ed version of
Asterisk. Which can only be done with the permission of Digium.

I figure you can use it inside your company, but not distribute it to
customers.

Standard disclaimer: IANAL.

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