[asterisk-users] Re: Asterisk Faxing Support

[Andrew Joakimsen]

What is the difference between using my proprietary asterisk-add on
than to using my proprietary email client (Microsoft Outlook) with my
GPL IMAP servers? You guys need to drop your BS elitist point of view,
It isn't your software,  its talking to your software like any other
software does, the license of that software has nothing to do with it.

On 2/10/07, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:

> No. RedHat publish the full sources (as easily-rebuildable source
> packages) to all the packages in RHEL. This is why CentOS is possible.
>
> Digium may just as well *bundle* code of that sort in Asterisk (e.g: as
> a separate AGI script, or whatever). The pproblem is that linking such a
> code into Asterisk makes it (for the common interpertation of the
> copyrights laws) a part of Asterisk.
>
> So Digium cannot use exactly the same strategy as RedHat if it wants to
> allow people to link propietary modules with Asterisk. And this is the
> major difference.
>
>