[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Remove chan_usbradio and app_rpt.

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> I am not sure why it is not maintained when Jim Dixon has the code on the
> repo, supposedly something in Asterisk is broken and broke app_rpt.

No, when the change from Zaptel to DAHDI was made, the API was cleaned
up in the process, and that broke the interface.  The change from
Zaptel to DAHDI was all about someone else's trademark on the Zaptel
name.  The maintainers of app_rpt have made a strategic decision that
they don't want to do the work to make their code compatible with
DAHDI.  There's no technical reason why they couldn't -- there's
several competing hardware manufacturers who have kept pace and made
their work compatible with DAHDI.

> I think that whoever made the decision does not want to sign away the
> rights to their code, there are hundreds of millions of  dollars in this
> functionality.  I would probably not want to relinquish my rights to my
> code under Digiums' dual license.

That makes utterly no sense.  The code was previously in Asterisk, so
it was already under a dual license.  It's clear that you harbor bad
feelings toward Digium, but not everybody is as short-sighted.  Hell,
I got fired from Digium, and I don't even have this level of vitriol
towards the company.

-Tilghman