[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad at codefidence.com
Sun Nov 14 10:02:25 MST 2004


Martin List-Petersen wrote:

>>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.

I stand corrected. AFAIK the FSF is a full copyright assigment.

BTW, I actually signed and faxed the "Digium disclaimer" and already 
contributed code under it thinking it was a copyright assigment. I guess 
I just trust Mark, which in the end - this is what all this is about.

Gilad




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