Geez. This is starting to sound like Microsoft licensing.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tzafrir Cohen</b> <<a href="mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com">tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Nick Hoffman wrote:<br>> Hi guys. I just stumbled upon<br>>
<a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+G.729+Licensing">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+G.729+Licensing</a> and<br>> read the section titled "Warning". I'm a bit confused now. Are you
<br>> violating the GPL (or any other license) if you sell a computer with<br>> Asterisk and a G.729 license installed?<br><br>Dislcaimer: IANALATINALA<br><br>Asterisk can be used under three different licenses:<br>
<br>1. non-free: if you py Digium. Not relevant here.<br><br>2. The GNU GPL. The problem is that the GPL has a conflict with<br>openh323, openssl (at least according to some people) and to any code<br>whose redistribution is prohibited due to patentns (
e.g: g723.1/g729<br>codecs)<br><br>3. Modified GPL. The GNU GPL with some small exceptions. Those allow<br>linking with openssl, openh323 and with patented code.<br><br>So as long as you actually use (3) and not (2) and don't violate the
<br>terms of the licenses for the code you actually want to redistribute<br>(e.g: read caefully the license of the 'register' utility) you should<br>probably be clear.<br><br>Some modules have a license that is only GPL (() and not (3)). Those
<br>include the mysql module from addons (right?) and probably quite a few<br>third-party modules. You are not allowed to use both such a module and<br>the g729 codec on the same Asterisk system because it would violate<br>
either the terms of (2) (the g729 module adds restrictions that conflict<br>with the GPL) or with the GPL terms of thoe modules (the modified GPL<br>adds restrictions that conflict with the original GPL license).<br><br>--
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