[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

Martin List-Petersen martin+asterisk at list-petersen.net
Sat Nov 13 14:20:54 MST 2004


Citat Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net>:

>> If so, you are allowed to fork or distribute your own patches and not sign
>> any of the disclaimers. This is what Klaus-Peter Junghanns does with the
>> bristuff patch (adds various addons, including full DSS1 BRI support to
>> Asterisk, Zaptel and Libpri and enabled Asterisk for a whole range of 
>> standard ISDN cards) and chan_capi. He refuses to sign the disclaimer
because
>> he doesn't agree with the Dual License that Asterisk is maintaining and his
>> work contain contributions from others, that are GPL only.
>> 
>> It just doesn't go in the asterisk mainstream source then. Might be
>> cumbersome, but that is the way it is.
> 
> I don't even think there's anything wrong with that, and it is interesting
> to hear that there's already a forked project.

Currently it's just a patchset against the asterisk, zaptel, libpri stable
release, that is distributed seperatly, but you could categorise that a fork
allready.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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