[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> Surely, but if you contribute to a project, shouldn't you allways check the
> license ? Would LICENSE, COPYRIGHT or README be the first places to look, if
> not
> on the website ?

Absolutely, but all license and copyright files in the GPL Asterisk 
distribution are pure GPL, and do not mention that Digium has an 
alternative licensing method available to them. In fact, the LICENSE 
file at the top of the Digium-distributed Asterisk tree is an exact copy 
of the GPL version 2 as distributed by the FSF.

Anyone who downloads this code, learns it, makes changes, and then 
decides to contribute those changes back to the "project" will only 
_then_ learn that they must allow Digium to license their code under 
non-GPL terms if they want their changes incorporated in to the "project".