[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Martin List-Petersen]

Citat "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at starnetworks.us>:

> 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".

No .. the README tells about the Dual License. 

/Martin