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

[Jeremy McNamara]

William Waites wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:01:38PM -0500, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
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>>That fact is not the problem.  It the fact that there is no FORK of 
>>Asterisk that Digium secretly maintains.  This is how rumors get 
>>started.
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>If memory serves, you were the one who started that rumour.
>I remember you claiming publicly that (1) you had a private
>fork and (2) you had licenced Asterisk outside of the GPL
>from Digium and had the right to distribute a proprietary
>version if you chose.
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I seem to recall your http://www.gnutel.com publicly discussing a fork 
of Asterisk.

And I quote:   "It is an explicit design goal of the GNUTel Software to 
be as portable as possible to run on as great a variety of systems as 
possible. To help with this, one of the major initial points of 
divergence between GNUTel and Asterisk is the build process. We support 
GNU Autoconf, Automake and LibTool."  and elsewhere,  "Since at this 
stage, from a configuration and deployment standpoint, GNUTel has not 
diverged very much from the Asterisk PBX, their documentation is quite 
useful."

So who's forking what? (I have a full mirror to backup these statements)

I fully and totally support Digium every way I possibly can, because 
without Asterisk my company would not exist.  This support comes in 
developmental and technical support of Asterisk along with monetary 
support as necessary. 

I have one shared object module that quite a few people have expressed 
interest in, yes, but this is is far from a fork of Asterisk.  This is 
absolutely nothing different than chan_dialogic.so or even 
codec_g729b.so. If you want it, you can pay for it. If not, write your 
own, you have the damn code.

>While it is undoubtedly true that Digium does not secretly
>maintain a fork, your company, NuFone is closely associated
>on a business level with Digium, and you are as far as I
>know the only person outside of Digium with commit privileges
>to the source tree... 2+2 == ?
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How about James Golovich aka citats?   (sorry James)  Plus, I have 
written two channel drivers for Asterisk.  Mark graciously offered CVS 
commit to me and I have only used those privileges when asked or to 
update code I have contributed.


Jeremy McNamara