[asterisk-dev] default format for sounds

[Maxim Sobolev]

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> 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.

I don't disagree with that at all. If what you are saying is correct, 
technically, anybody who uses those prompts now could be doing copyright 
infringement unknowingly.

My point is that it should probably be a separate topic of discussion.

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