[asterisk-biz] Response to KP Flemming...

[Joe Shmoe]

You say its not your code.  But yet, why would you
actually admit to one of your own leaking it.  Well
some research has been done one the code.. here's what
we found.. 

the g723.1 library code that was posted matches the
library code distributed by Digium and committed to
CVS by Mark in March 2003, with the one exception that
the tab_lpc.c file that was distributed by the poster
had CRLF line endings in it, where the one from Digium
CVS had only LF endings.  The module code was
identical to:
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/codecs/codec_g723_1.c?rev=5869&view=markup

Also if you want to know if Digium fully complies the
the GPL no.  They dont.  Digium has added a paragraph
of text under the symbol ASTERISK_GPL_KEY in
include/asterisk/module.h which every Asterisk module
must return when a function *key() is called by the
module loader. This paragraph makes a claim that
modules must only be released under the GPL license,
not any other license, which excludes GPL compatible
licensing and thereby constitutes an additional
restriction which is explicitly prohibited by section
7 of the GPL. see
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/Lexmark_v_Static_Control/20041026_Ruling.pdf
for additional information on this type of activity
and generally why that paragraph cant even be legally
copyrighted (at least in America, where digium is
based).

Missed the link for the Codec's?  Here ya go!  

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