There is no FORK! (WAS Re: [Asterisk-Users] BETA RADIUS support for Asterisk)

[Jeremy McNamara]

Steven Critchfield wrote:

>Maybe you should read and understand the comments on licensing. Maybe a
>going over the licensing threads here would also be needed. 
>
>For the short story, Digium dual licenses asterisk. There is a GPL
>license for those of us that don't need proprietary support, and then
>there is a proprietary license that is charged for and is a fork of
>asterisk by Digium. 
>

Mark needs full control of the copyright so things like Open H.323, 
OpenSSL and G.729 can exist in Asterisk.  There is no FORK!


>This is why disclaimers are important for those who
>contribute patches. If there isn't a disclaimer, Digium can not include
>it in the proprietary version of asterisk. If they can not include it in
>the proprietary version, they tend to not allow it in their version of
>the GPL releases so they don't have to maintain a real proprietary fork
>as well as the GPL version. 
>  
>

THERE IS NO FORK!  There is a total of ONE (1) Asterisk source tree.


>So far the majority of us are cool with this fact and can work around
>any annoyances this causes. But as stated in the comments in that bug,
>there needs to be a disclaimer from free radius to use their software in
>such a way.
>  
>


A disclaimer is only needed if the code is to be included with Asterisk.


Please get your facts straight before posting.


Jeremy McNamara