[asterisk-dev] digium closing the source?
Denis Smirnov
ds at seiros.ru
Mon Sep 4 04:39:35 MST 2006
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:22:13PM +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 :)
EG> Yes they can, they're the author and the licensor of the code.
EG> You're confusing "can" with "will", or actually, "can't" with "won't".
Ok, Digium can't make more effective business with closed-source Asterisk
fork if stop supporting GPL version. And it mean that Digium won't create
fork like this.
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