[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

> >> The patent owners would view locally compiled GPL asterisk and a GPL
> >> fork of asterisk equally. If they permit me to buy codec licenses
> >> from digium and use them with an asterisk that I have modified there
> >> is no reason to prevent me from doing the same with a fork.
> >
> > You do not understand.  Only the copyright holder of the GPL software
> > can allow non-gpl software to link with their GPL Licensed software.
> 
> This is complete nonsense. The end user can do /whatever he likes/ with
> GPL software, /including linking it with commercial software/. The GPL
> restrictions only apply to /redistribution rights/.
Let's not be pedantic, you know what jerjer meant.

> So openpbx could release a couple of handy scripts so that end users can
> easily link the software with whatever they like and there would be no
> infringement.
That's a very slippery slope, possibly contributory copyright
infringement.


-alex