[Asterisk-Users] Help with GPL license of Asterisk

[WipeOut]

Steven Critchfield wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:27, WipeOut wrote:
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>>Alejandro Olchik wrote:
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>>>I understand Asterisk have contributions of many
>>>developers and not only from Digium.
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>>>When licensing Asterisk from Digium looking other kind
>>>of licence than GPL, what happens with the rights of
>>>other members of this community?
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>>>Alejandro
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>>No code is commited to Asterisk unless the developer has returned a
>>disclaimer to Digium which basically renounces any claim to the code..
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>This is not true. No code is committed to CVS with out Digium having the
>right to a non-exclusive, royalty-free and non-cancellable right to use
>changes and/or enhancements. This means if you contribute code, you keep
>your copyright for the code, but have also given Digium the right to use
>the code in any way they see fit. This keeps the core code unencumbered
>of GPL only code for Digium. The rest of us receive the code either via
>a GPL license or a paid for commercial license.
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I stand corrected.. :)