[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Joe Greco]

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

Try reading it as though you didn't know about the dual license.

If you read it without that knowledge, it sounds as though they are trying
to provide a way within the terms of the GPL to allow linking with stuff
that isn't GPL'd.  This could be important for a telephony application,
what with patented codec's and stuff like that.  I certainly took it that
way.

It does say:

" If you have any questions, whatsoever, regarding our licensing policy,
please contact us."

but I don't consider that to be a disclosure of a dual license.

As a matter of fact, the ChangeLog says:

* Asterisk 0.1.1
 -- Revised License -- Pure GPL, nothing else

Knowing about the dual licensing, I think it may be possible to torture the
language within the README to at least hint that there might be one.

Reading the README without knowing about the dual licensing, I don't get
dual licensing disclosure out of it at all.

Maybe someone could get out some crayons and draw me that diagram I was
promised by someone a few messages back.  :-)

... 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.