[Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

[Michael Giagnocavo]

>> Hi Angel,
>>
>> It is working pretty well. I think it will be available about the end 
>> of the year. I will not be free. It will be supplied with a 
>> commercially licenced Asterisk.
>
>
>Here's a question: if the author has purchased a commercial license to 
>use Asterisk, and I get binary modules from him, I can still use them 
>with my CVS-based Asterisk, right?

As I understand, he gets a GPL exemption, allowing him to link against
Asterisk without GPL'ing his code. That allows him to ship binaries not
complying with GPL. You can do whatever you want with them. Unless of
course, the author decides to do some kind of extra license, telling you
what you're allowed to run on. But I don't believe Digium gets involved in
that (at any rate, end-users can't buy a non GPL Aright now).

Also interesting will be if Digium does a non-GPL Asterisk, allowing anyone
to write for Asterisk without licensing, however only working with the
non-GPL license. This should help with revenue, since companies wanting to
offer closed-source can do so without signing any special agreements, and
Digium just collects normal non-GPL Asterisk fees from end-users using the
software. 

At any rate, no one said the SS7 app wouldn't be open source :). Just that'd
it'd be commercial.

-Michael