[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk "dual licensing"

[Steve Totaro]

Please [off-list]


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Greco" <jgreco at ns.sol.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk "dual licensing"


> [off-list]
>
>> Brian Capouch wrote:
>>
>> > I would like to see you say out loud, just once, that those of us who
>> > know all of that and disclaim our work to Digium are not necessarily
>> > idiotic boobs who don't know what we're doing.
>>
>> As Joe already pointed out, he doesn't believe this to be the case :-)
>
> Correct, of course.  :-)  I've said repeatedly that authors can do 
> whatever
> they want.
>
> [Then you go on to bring up several interesting points, which bear a fair
> amount of consideration.]
>
> I've studied the GPL at arm's length for some years now.  We long ago made
> a business decision to license code under BSD for a variety of reasons, 
> and
> I've studied the ins and outs of that decision in detail over the years. 
> I
> am finding it fascinating to contemplate the complexities of bending the
> GPL in this manner, since it isn't an issue which I've extensively
> considered, and your comments extend my understanding of the ins and outs
> of this in a direction I hadn't even started to consider.
>
> Thanks.  ;-)
>
> ... JG
> -- 
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] 
> then I
> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail 
> spam(CNN)
> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many 
> apples.
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