[Asterisk-Users] Help with GPL license of Asterisk

[costas]

I would consider GPL my code. 

I am just afraid that if SCO bought Digium then they would claim its their code and sue everyone. Just because I'm paranoid it doesnt mean they are not out to get me.  :)

Costas

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Date:  Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:20:20 -0700 (PDT)

>
>--- costas  <costas at meezon.com> wrote:
>> I would appreciate some help with this. I read the GPL license and
>> basically it says you can do whatever you want with the software
>> (sell, modify) as long as you include the source code, the License
>> and make any changes you make available in the same manner to all
>> others.
>> 
>> My questions is this: If I develop an external application (say a
>> Call Center application or a GUI management application) that uses
>> Asterisk data is that also GPLd? I understand if I add code to
>> Asterisk, but what about external interfaces?
>
>
>
>On the www.fsf.org web site, the author of the GPL says...
>
>Please send inquiries about GNU and the FSF to
>
>        Free Software Foundation           Voice:  +1-617-542-5942
>        59 Temple Place - Suite 330        Fax:    +1-617-542-2652
>        Boston, MA  02111-1307,  USA       E-Mail: gnu at gnu.org
>
>This is the only way to get the "real answer".
>
>The ay Iread it is  if your application is "stand alone" in that you
>could run it without the GPL'd Asterisk PBX then you are OK.  But if
>your application depends so much on Asterisk that it could not be made
>to work with any other PBX then it must be coverd by GPL.  This test is
>spelled out in the GPL.  One way to be 100% certain is to make your
>application "talk" to asterisk through an interface library with the
>idea being that "someday" you could write another libray to support a
>second PBX.  Only the libray need to GPL'd.
>
>
>
>
>Why not GPL your application?  You are using both GNU/Linux and
>Asterisk
>If yu had some issue with GPL I assume you'd not want to use those so
>why not cover yur software with GPL?
>
>> 
>> Where is the seperation here of the Cathedral and the Bazaar?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
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>> Costas Menico
>> Meezon Software Corp
>> 201-224-8111
>> costas at meezon.com
>> 
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Costas Menico
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