[Asterisk-Users] Help with GPL license of Asterisk

[costas]

Sometimes I wonder if this GPL opens a can of worms bigger than the one it tries to solve.

Example: 
1) No GPL. I pay and buy a library that does something. In simple terms they let me redistribute the library combined into my code. 
Cost: of library and cost per copy sold.

2) With GPL. I want to commercially distribute an app that interfaces to it. 
Cost: I am afraid of getting sued so I hire a lawyer who at mucho bucks tells me its ok. 
So here is the Damoclean Sword: I go ahead with it and become succesful. I still get sued (in theory) and hire mucho attorneys for much money to defend.

So, if I want to just use Asterisk without worrying, how much does it cost? I mean is there a cost per installation?

Costas

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: TC <trclark at shaw.ca>
Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Date:  Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:39:41 -0700

>>If you have to link your software with a GPL library or use header files
>>you have used GPL files and will be required to honor the license. If
>>you use AGI, the stdin/stdout sufficiently isolates the parts. 
>I would assume an interface off manager also isolates the parts as well
>
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