[Asterisk-Users] Re: Re: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Sunday 12 June 2005 04:14, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> Really.  So if I use a non GPL libc I cant run asterisk?  Interesting
> that its so parasitic that you will either be assimilated or not.  I
> however dont think that is the case.  Modules, yes they are considered
> derritave works (my opinion is that they arent but that is the wording
> on gnu.org), libraries can go either way.  There are ways to curtail
> this behaviour if desired and make it so you can only link against GPL
> code, but then things like the manager interface cant be controlled that
> way.  If that were the case they could say you cna only use GPL sip
> clients and they cant (and specifically dont) say that.

It was just mumbings and I do believe that they were resolved in a "common 
sense" fashion.  i.e. .so's are linked, whereas AGIs and Manager interfaces 
are not.  I have not, however, seen anything *definitive* on it.

-A.