[asterisk-dev] Copyright issues with libcurl and OpenSSL

[James Jones]

Does anyone know why the g729 codec module sold by diguim  does not 
display the OpenSSL copyright information. Do they have an agreement 
with OpenSSL to not display the Copyright Information that is required 
ny their license when distributed as part of a binary that uses OpenSSL.

The registration program uses libcurl and openssl (both statically 
linked) to register the g.729 codec (and they said soon other 
products).  This too does not display the required information about 
other peoples open source code.

If they don't have already signed agreements with the developer of 
libCurl and OpenSSL they are distrabuting libCURL and OpenSSL with 
giving the correct copyright information with register program and then 
they are making money off the OpenSSL libs with they sell the g729 codec 
with out giving correct copyright information. I just want to confirm 
they have agreement not to show copyright information for the products, 
if not it could cause legal issues for people who work with Asterisk 
when they distribute it to their clients/customers.

I have enclosed relivent snippites of the licenses in question and links 
to the full licenses.

libCurl: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html

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OpenSSL: http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html

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