<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Florian Overkamp</b> <<a href="mailto:florian@obsimref.com">florian@obsimref.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;">
snacktime wrote:<br>> permit to be used for their contributions.. They won't be happy unless<br>> everyone else does things their way. They wouldn't be happy if asterisk<br>> was BSD or MIT licensed either.<br>
<br>No that's not true. I myself would be perfectly happy with an MPL.<br>However, because Asterisk is available under a GPL formed license, any<br>fork will need to be GPL too, until such a time that any and all GPL<br>code has been replaced by something the prospective owners are willing
<br>to relicense under something else.<br><br>FLorian<br></blockquote></div><br>
A fork can be anything you want if you own the copyright. They
could fork asterisk into a BSD license tommorrow if they wanted
to. Or actually it would be a combination of BSD and public
domain, with all new code going under BSD.<br>
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The people who don't like ABE wouldn't be happy with BSD, because what
they dont' like is that Digium can take their contributions and release
them as part of a closed source product. A BSD license would
allow that just like owning the copyright does.<br>
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Personally I look at it like this. Until the point comes that
Digium is contributing less to asterisk then the rest of the community
has, then the community is gaining more than they have given. If
I contribute code to asterisk which Digium sells for a profit via ABE,
that's great. I still have access to asterisk which is worth a
lot more than the small part I have contributed. I win,
Digium wins, I dont' see the problem. The code
I contributed I probably needed anways. And without asterisk I
wouldn't have anything at all. And in addition, the more money
Digium makes the better asterisk will be which also benefits me in the
long run. <br>
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Chris<br>
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