[asterisk-users] Sangoma vs Digium: (was Re: ping too)

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 05 October 2007 12:52:41 shadowym wrote:
> I disagree with any argument for or against Digium in support of Asterisk
> as much as I do for or against Sangoma or Rhino or one of the Chinese knock
> offs in support of Asterisk.  Digium uses the open source community to
> create better commercial software products and their licensing policies
> reflect that whereby they own the code anyone contributes so it's not like
> they don't benefit if you don't buy their hardware.

I try my best to stay out of these flame wars, but what you've expressed here
is simply wrong.

When you contribute code to Asterisk, you retain ownership of your code.  You
are NOT disclaiming the contribution; you are LICENSING the contribution.
This is an important legal distinction, and all too often, it gets muddled by
people who either do not understand the distinction or have ulterior motives.

-- 
Tilghman