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

[Derek Samford]

I believe that's what Steven was saying. That if this code was to ever
be included in the asterisk source then there would need to be a
disclaimer from Derek Bruce, as well as the Freeradius dev team. He
pointed out that this keeps there from being any need for a fork, and
makes things much less complicated for Digium.

Derek Samford



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy McNamara [mailto:jj at nufone.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:42 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: There is no FORK! (WAS Re: [Asterisk-Users] BETA RADIUS support
for Asterisk)

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




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