[asterisk-dev] digium closing the source?

Mon Sep 4 02:22:13 MST 2006

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:10:59PM +0400, Denis Smirnov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:30:29AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 
> EG> Please keep in mind that, despite that they released the source
> EG> under the GPL, they *still* can have a proprietary[sp] version of
> EG> Asterisk which they sell which can have more features than the
> EG> normal GPLed Asterisk and they *still* can one day say "We will
> EG> stop releasing the software from now on". 
> 
> Digium _can't_ do that. It kill business of selling Digium hardware at
> least. And if that would done, in one hour would be many-many forks :)

Yes they can, they're the author and the licensor of the code.

You're confusing "can" with "will", or actually, "can't" with "won't".

Edwin

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