[asterisk-dev] Support for Dialogic DM3 cards

[Gilmore, Gerry]

Listen, I didn't (and don't) want to start - or participate in - Yet
Another Licensing War. As I said, I (personally) wish that Intel's
license were pure GPL, but it isn't. Since it isn't, it's up to Digium
to decide how to interpret the licensing of Asterisk, since Mark
originated it and has always licensed it under the dual-license, which
has been discussed ad nauseum here and elsewhere. 

In this case, Mark and Digium have been clear and consistent:
whenever/ifever we (Intel) license our System Release code under the
GPL, we're welcome to have the channel driver code put into the SVN
tree. The ball is clearly in our court.

Gerry

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary
and those who don't.
 
Gerry Gilmore
Field Applications Engineer
Intel Corporation
(http://www.intel.com)
 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Anton
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:40 PM
To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
Cc: Kevin P. Fleming
Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Support for Dialogic DM3 cards

Just to add a few words, that even is not a problem, but say 
I produce some significant addition, a patch. But I'm too 
lasy to sign and send the disclaimer. Even if I do not care 
about any rights to the code. But despite the significance 
of the patch, will you accept the patch to the main code? 

On 27 March 2006 23:28, Anton wrote:
> 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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