<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin P. Fleming</b> <<a href="mailto:kpfleming@digium.com">kpfleming@digium.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tony Hoyle wrote:<br><br>> No, since Asterisk requires that copyright be assigned to Digium for all<br>> patches. Submitters to OpenPBX may be unwilling to do this, especially<br>> since that's one of the main reasons for its existance...
<br><br>Please stop spreading misinformation. We have addressed this at least<br>four times in the last six months on this list.<br><br>Digium does NOT require copyright assignment for contributions to the<br>Asterisk tree.
<br><br>Digium does require either that the code be public domain (unrestricted<br>use), or that Digium be granted a license to reuse the code at our<br>discretion (the disclaimer).<br></blockquote></div><br>
Being that Digium wants to be able to sell a commercial version, I
don't see how they could have been more accomodating then
this. Digium can only put in their commercial version what
they themselves have written, or what others have freely given them to
use under the public domain. The only people that would
have a problem with this are the one that believe so strongly in the
GPL that it's the only license they will permit to be used for their
contributions.. They won't be happy unless everyone else does
things their way. They wouldn't be happy if asterisk was BSD or
MIT licensed either. <br>
<br>
Chris<br>
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