[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

Martin List-Petersen martin+asterisk at list-petersen.net
Sun Nov 14 07:16:33 MST 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 08:30, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> >>Further, that really does seem to fly in the face of the spirit of the GPL,
> >>and this is touched on by the GPL FAQ:
> >>
> >>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCReleaseUnderGPLAndNF
> >>
> >>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCDeveloperViolate
> 
> 
> You may or may not be aware that to contribute code to FSF owned and 
> maintained software one needs to assign copyright to the FSF in much the 
> same way one is required to assign copyrights to Digium.
> 
> True, I don't think the FSF are going to sell licenses to those programs 
> under different terms and Digium does.

Could you please go and read Marks (or my) mail again ?
I don't know about the FSF (haven't checked) but with Digium you are
keeping your copyright, but giving Digium a non-excluse, non-revocable
license to your changes.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen





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