[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> No .. the README tells about the Dual License. 

Not quite. The README says that Digium can grant others the right to 
create modules that link with Asterisk at runtime but are not required 
to be licensed under the GPL. It does not say that Digium can grant 
others the right to distribute binaries of Asterisk without making the 
GPL parts of the code available to the recipients of those binaries. In 
addition, it does not say that Digium can grant others the right to 
distribute binaries of Asterisk that contain changes to the _core code_ 
without making those changes available under the GPL.

It is my understanding that Digium's disclaimer _does_ give them the 
ability to license Asterisk in this fashion, but the LICENSE and README 
files in the GPL Asterisk source do not make this clear to those who 
have copies of the distribution.