[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk with Dialogic VFX/40ESC plus

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 13:58 -0500, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:05:21PM -0600, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > 
> > Close on the complete reason. There is also a licensing conflict with
> > Dialogic drivers and GPL software. You have to get a commercial license
> > for asterisk to clear the licensing issue. Beware that I think as soon
> > as you get the commercial license for Dialogic, you may not be able to
> > use any mysql functions due to license conflicts unless you bought a
> > commercial mysql license as well.
> 
> Would it be correct that these licensing conflict only come into
> play if the combination is further distributed.  It was my understanding
> that nothing in the GPL prevents you from mixing GPL code and
> proprietary code for your own private use;  you just can't
> further distribute the combination since the GPL would require
> you to distribute source to the other pieces and you don't 
> have that to do so..?  Or maybe I'm all confused and should
> be slapped :)

Granted it has been a while since I dealt with mysql licensing as it was
too poor a performer for our mix of queries. 

I seem to remember that mysql made a stink recently about the dual
licensing of asterisk. That was the cause of the mysql code getting
pulled and placed in the add-ons sections so the core didn't have any
licensing issues.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>