[Dundi] Re: VoIP peering & routing protocols (revisited)

[Mark Spencer]

There is no "limited GPL".  It's either GPL or not, and DUNDi *is* GPL.

Mark

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Todd wrote:

>
> At 11:15 AM -1000 on 4/19/05, Randy Bush wrote:
>> does DUNDi not have the additional problem of not being open-license?
>> 
>> randy
>
> While I am not familiar with the intricacies of GPL vs. limited GPL vs. [fill 
> in license X], I will say that the DUNDi protocol was developed with the 
> intention of becoming an RFC, so I would hope that the intent was to make the 
> protocol a license-free effort, even though there is certainly good precedent 
> for that not being the case on other standards proposals 
> <coughMICROSOFTcough>.  While the Asterisk implementation of DUNDi may 
> currently be under the Asterisk/Digium modified/limited GPL, I don't know if 
> the protocol itself is under the same license scheme.  I would suspect "No", 
> but simple questions like this tend to take up far too much time on various 
> mailing lists, so no assumption is safe.  I typically delete those 
> conversation threads, as they typically contain hysteria, ignorance, or 
> arrogance in varying blends and quantities.  I would suggest that everyone 
> who has an interest in such things to talk to a lawyer for firm determination 
> thereof, or move to a country where such questions are legally irrelevant.
>
> I simply wish everyone would move to BSD licenses, to avoid these headaches 
> and FUD, though I'm certain even that could be argued ad infinitum.  Welcome 
> to the planet of lawyers.
>
> References:
> http://www.asterisk.org/
> http://www.dundi.com/
>
>
> JT
>
>
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