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

[Rich Adamson]

> > 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)

I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with
GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under
OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces).