[Asterisk-Users] License questioni supose ??

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 08:24, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 8:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] License questioni supose ??
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:54, Nicolas Bougues wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:23:52PM +0100, Michael Devenijn wrote:
> > > > I have some strange question bout the asterisk (gpl license ...) but
> i'm not an experienced linux user ...
> > > >
> > > > What happens if for example a big company buys digium , do we have a
> garantuee that asterisk stays opensource ???
> > > >
> > >
> > > Until the last released version, yes. Digium owns the Copyright : they
> > > can decide whenever they want that their next release will have any
> > > other kind of licence (open or not).
> > >
> 
> 
> Can someone define released version for me? Is that the 0.5 that's available
> as stable, or the most recent copy that's checked in to cvs, or something
> else?

AFAIK, since the CVS versions are distributed to users, and they are
released under the GPL, then basically all versions accessible via CVS
or tar ball should meet the definition as released. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>