[Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition

[Adam Dobrin]

here, here!

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote:
>
>> Go ahead and have a proprietary fork, sell it, have it specially 
>> licensed.  But please, please, please treat the community fairly.  
>> Otherwise it causes unrest in the community, discourages 
>> contribution, encourages forking, and triggers forum threads like 
>> this one.
>
>
> You seem to be neglecting the amount of work that Digium puts into the 
> Asterisk (and related) products on an ongoing basis that is given to 
> the community at no charge. Saying "Digium GPLed Asterisk and we're 
> thankful for that, now what" only makes sense if it happened one time 
> and then Digium stopped contributing to the source base.
>
> I think the situation is much different from that (although I'm 
> obviously biased since I'm paid to work full-time on Asterisk by 
> Digium). Digium continues to pay people to provide enhancements to 
> Asterisk, Zaptel and the related projects, and those enhancements are 
> even used by companies that directly compete with Digium. We also very 
> strongly push our "custom development" customers in the direction of 
> letting us include the code we write for them into the open-source 
> tree, so that the community will benefit.
>
> In other words, I think the contributions from Digium to the community 
> are ongoing, and in many ways more than offset the license that 
> contributors grant to us for the commercial use of their code in our 
> products. Your opinion may vary, of course :-)
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