[asterisk-dev] Re: Recent additions to the Digium Asterisk development team

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
>> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Denis Galvão <denisgalvao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The VERY GOOD work done by Steve on the chan_unicall, spandsp and
>>>> libmfcr2 turn on the possibility to work with Asterisk in  
>>>> Brazil, but
>>>> is a pain to apply a patch every time a new Asterisk version is
>>>> announced, is pain to maintain two software trees.
>>>>
>>> This is not an issue that Digium can do anything about. If the  
>>> work has
>>> been done and provides the functionality that you desire, but is not
>>> contributed to Digium for inclusion in Asterisk, then that is how it
>>> is. Digium would be happy to see Steve's MFC/R2 and spandsp work be
>>> part of the official Asterisk tree, but we cannot make that happen,
>>> only Steve can.
>>>
>> I think you have that the wrong way around. Digium can make it happen
>> any time they choose. :-)
>
> I think it works both ways round. Either side could change their  
> position
> so that the two are compatible. The question is: what are the  
> obstacles in
> each case?

IIRC, Steve uses GPLed code from other places, stuff he'd be bound to  
rewrite from scratch to disclaim it to Digium

roy
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