[Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org

[Peter Nixon]

On Friday 07 October 2005 19:10, Troy Settle wrote:
> Nice smartass remark... of course anyone can register a domain name.
>
> Is forking asterisk legal?  Of course it is!  Asterisk is under the GPL,
> which means that anyone can fork it at any time for any reason.
>
> Look at this in a positive light... many open source projects have
> forked, and the branches almost always end up feeding on one another.

The difference in this case being of course that OpenPBX can happily continue 
to feed on any good developments (code wise) that happens in Asterisk but due 
to Digium's dual license restrictions Asterisk will not be able to feed on 
code that goes into OpenPBX. This means (and this is already the case if you 
look at the source tree) that other issues aside, OpenPBX should progress 
quicker in the long term. (That is if you assume that there is good code in 
Asterisk that the OpenPBX developers wish to use and visa versa)

Cheers
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Peter Nixon
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