[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Remove chan_usbradio and app_rpt.

[Steve Underwood]

On 03/11/2012 02:04 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:26 PM, wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Steve Totaro wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>>>> Additionally, it matters not one whit when the Zapata Telephony
>>>>> Project started, only when Digium started using the mark.  The Zapata
>>>>> Telephony project is a completely separate organization from Digium,
>>>>> and if they plausibly have a trademark on the Zaptel name, that does
>>>>> not extend to Digium.  Separate organizations, separate trademarks.
>>>> Again, the driver for the first Tormenta card was called zaptel.
>>> Irrelevant, because Digium never made the Tormenta ISA card.
>> They made the drivers.
> Not the original ones, no.  The original drivers were from BSD.  As
> best as I can tell, everything was written no earlier than 2000.  See
> the copyright on the website and within the individual source files.
> http://web.archive.org/web/20010302223218/http://www.bsdtelephony.com.mx/zapata-current.tar.gz
> If you look through the code, as I have, you'll find that the term
> "zaptel" is not mentioned anywhere.  Everything refers to Zapata
> Telephony or Tormenta.  "Zaptel" was a later abbreviation by Mark
> Spencer, when he ported Jim Dixon's drivers to Linux.
>
> The full site (unfortunately, the ported Linux package was not
> archived, so I cannot see what was there):
> http://web.archive.org/web/20010302223218/http://www.bsdtelephony.com.mx/
The original "BSD telephony of Mexico" driver and applications code for 
the Tormenta 1 card was completed at the end of 1999, when the first 
Tormenta 1 card was available as a T1 card. By about Feb of 2000 I had 
modified a card to work as an E1 card, and my changes went into the main 
repository. That was about the time Mark Spencer started taking an 
interest in the work.

It seems that as soon as the first T1 card worked, all the work in 
Mexico ended. I don't think I ever inquired of Jim Dixon why that happened.

Steve