[Asterisk-Users] Re: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Esben Stien wrote:

> Yes, because digium has a dual license, you have to give up your
> copyright if you submit code to the project. This makes it possible to
> release a non free version in addition to the free one.

Please read the text of the Digium Asterisk contribution disclaimers 
before making incorrect statements like this.

Contributions to the Digium Asterisk tree do _not_, absolutely _not_ 
require the contributor to 'give up the their copyright'. That is one 
option, of course, like it is with any open-source project, but it is 
not the only option. The option that most contributors choose is the 
'long form disclaimer', which gives Digium a perpetual, irrevocable, 
non-exclusive license to use the contributor's code in any way it 
chooses to do so, but in no way takes over the copyright or limits what 
the contributor can do with their own code.

In other words, the long form disclaimer means that any code you 
contribute to the Digium-maintained Asterisk tree is yours to do with as 
you wish, but Digium also has a license (not ownership) to use that code 
in any other distributions it may choose to make (open source or otherwise).