[asterisk-dev] default format for sounds

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at sippysoft.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>> 2) The licensing of the sounds is unclear, but I'm pretty certain that
>> they are not available under the same terms as the Asterisk source
>> code (and probably never will be).
>
> Can we keep licensing and technical issues separate?

In the Free software world, these two issues can't always be separated.

> Personally I don't
> see why sounds cannot be licensed under the same terms. Sounds for
> astesisk is just like for example icons for Apache, it's nice to have
> them as part of the same package.

In theory sound files *can* be licensed under the GPL.  Unfortunately
in the case of Asterisk, they *aren't* and from what I know of the
politics behind the scenes it's unlikely that the sounds will be
available under such an open license when the sounds do receive a
proper license.

At this point in time Digium just needs to get *some* kind of license
statement on the sounds, it's just annoying to be in this position
where there's no license at all.

-- 
Jeff Ollie

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