[Asterisk-Users] rxfax problem

[Lee Howard]

Brian Candler wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:23:12PM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
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>>>If you don't mind saying, what is missing for full t.38 support?
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>>Steve giving Digium a royalty-free license to his GPL software or a 
>>pure-GPL branch of the Asterisk codebase, take your pick.
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>Why royalty-free? AFAICS there's nothing to stop Digium licensing this code
>commercially from him, if it adds value to the product.
>

You've misunderstood something.  Digium will not commit anything to the 
Asterisk code base that is not disclaimed to them first.  They do this 
for various commercial purposes.

They *could* take anything GPL, like spandsp or any related T.38 
developments in OpenPBX, and commit it to a GPL-only branch of the 
Asterisk codebase, but then they would have features missing from their 
non-GPL licensed commercial offering.

So yes, there is nothing to stop Digium from using GPL code in their GPL 
Asterisk ... except Digium stopping themselves.  And they do that rather 
predictably...  http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=7742  ... for 
whatever purpose they may have in keeping hardware support and features 
from Asterisk.

Lee.