[asterisk-biz] Digium G.729 codec binaries updatedfor Asterisk 1.4 on Solaris

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 22:49 -0400, Bill Gibbs wrote:
> Now I am not the smartest person in the world nor is my memory like and
> elephants but I seem to remember you shouting this in glee about Digum
> and their violation a while ago.
> 
That wasnt me, I did comment on it after several others, but ok as this
is a public list you are entitled to state wrong facts and accuse people
of things that didnt actually happen.

> The acknowledged it, fixed and moved on.
> 

No, matt commented on it, not digium, matt doesnt work for digium, nor
does he speak for them.  He said that because digium gives an exemption
to link in non gpl compatible code (namely openssl) that meant that
digium could violate the license, that wasnt correct.

I do not recall any public acknowledgement of the issue, although I did
bring up that they semi-privately acknowledged they were not in
compliance and corrected it.  The semi-public means was on a login only
website they maintain that cannot be browsed without a valid login.

That acknowledgement specifically did not cover the codecs instead it
only covered the register utility, which I did not mention as a
violation anymore, since they claim to have resolved that violation.



> There is no need to have some weird satisfaction about a GPL violation
> when the entire point of open source is communication and sharing of
> code.  They made amends, let's all move on.  EVERYONE here is better off
> because of Asterisk.

So as long as I am open and do communication I can take asterisk and do
non gpl compatible things with it and you would be ok with that?  Or is
this a one way street you speak of, where as long as its digium that is
selling code in binary only format they are allowed to violate an open
source license (that is what the issue is here specifically, not
asterisk but the codecs which arent gpl or open source).

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