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

[Steve Underwood]

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

>> 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

The only external code I make use of is libtiff. I use a few other 
things for the test suite, like fftw and libaudiofile. They aren't 
needed by the actually library, though.

Steve