[asterisk-dev] Support for Dialogic DM3 cards

[Anton]

It's already seems a religion war. You can read GNU as 
OpenSource, and anyway there might be much to argue. I 
think it's easy to understand what I meant...

On 27 March 2006 23:11, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Anton wrote:
> > not in the fair way. While for example I'll happily
> > release any of my code under GNU (in other words to
> > give it for free to everyone, to anytype of usage), I
> > will not be happy to just donate it to some commercial,
> > to be (possibly) used as their solely property in the
> > future. That is my point.
>
> This is contradictory and incorrect; GNU software is
> licensed under the GPLv2, and is not 'free to everyone,
> for any type of usage'.
>
> In addition, code contributed to Asterisk _never_ becomes
> the sole property of Digium, nor are we the only party
> able to commercially license that code. When you sign a
> disclaimer with us and contribute code, you give us a
> permanent license to use that code in any way we see fit,
> but you do not in any way restrict your own usage and
> licensing of that code, except in ways that would
> conflict with the license you already granted us (for
> example, you cannot grant a new, exclusive license for
> that code to another party, since you cannot revoke the
> license you granted to us).
>
> When you speak about these issues, please be sure you
> have an extremely clear and unbiased understanding of the
> licenses involved; otherwise, you risk making statements
> containing factual errors that then undermine your
> position and/or confuse the issue for others who read
> your posts :-)
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