[Asterisk-Users] H.323 support is distrubuted with Asterisk (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] chan_oh323.so: Segmentation Fault)

[Michael Manousos]

diana wrote:
> I will give you a paste from ast_h323.cpp from Jeremy h323 channel.
> 
>  * ast_h323.cpp
>  *
>  * OpenH323 Channel Driver for ASTERISK PBX.
>  *                      By  Jeremy McNamara
>  *                      For The NuFone Network
>  *
>  * This code has been derived from code created by
>  *              Michael Manousos and Mark Spencer
> 

This is obviously not a copyright notice.


> 
> I hope this speak for himself.
> 
> Diana Cionoiu
> 


Michael.


> 
> 
>>Jeremy McNamara wrote:
>>
>>>People H.323 support has been distributed with Asterisk for over a month
>>>now. see:  asterisk/channels/h323
>>>
>>>There is no reason to go out and download a third-party application.
>>
>>This is not the whole truth about H.323 and Asterisk.
>>For all these people who don't know the real facts,
>>if they look in the archives of the Asterisk mailing-list,
>>they will discover that the first standard-based (ITU-T)
>>VoIP support for Asterisk was asterisk-oh323 (H.323 channel
>>driver). Of course, that first attempt was something very
>>premature and had limited funcionality, but since then it has
>>been improved in many ways. "asterisk-oh323" is still distributed
>>and actively maintained by inAccess Networks, and we believe it
>>to be a better implementation than chan_h323. The reason that
>>asterisk-oh323 was not included in the asterisk source tree is that
>>we were reluctant to assign its copyright to Digium. Nevertheless,
>>asterisk-oh323 is free software distributed under the GPL.
>>
>>Some months since the original announcement of our h323 support package,
>>McNamara sent a mail to the Asterisk's
>>list saying that he had made his own H.323 channel driver.
>>Well, guess what? He edited the original channel driver,
>>with no major improvements (how can anyone consider source code refacing
>>as an impovement??) and presented it as his own work.
>>He never submitted patches, fixes, or
>>suggestions for improvement of asterisk-oh323. He decided to fork the
>>project from day one. If anyone were to compare the
>>sources of the two channel drivers, he would see that there are
>>still great portions that are common.
>>As a "thanks" to the authors of the *original* asterisk H.323 channel
>>driver, McNamara removed all the copyright notices from the source
>>files.
>>
>>Well done! Great job!
>>
>>Michael.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Jeremy McNamara
>>>
>>>
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