[Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

> What I am saying, though, is that Digium didn't give out royalty-free 
> proprietary licenses to Asterisk, instead, they gave out GPL licenses 
> to Asterisk.  Why, then, do they require that contributions are made 
> any differently?  Why do they require freedoms with contribution that 
> they did not give with theirs?  Well, probably because they believe 
> that they're owed that, and probably because many others in the 
> community not unlike yourself agree with that opinion as well.

Or maybe simply because if they accepted such contributions, it would 
prevent them from selling purely closed source, commercial licenses, 
which they might be doing.

That being said, somebody could very well come along and start a CVS 
'patchsterisk' fork (for things like bristuffed). Why not...