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

[snacktime]

On 10/8/05, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote:
>
> snacktime wrote:
>
> >
> > Being that Digium wants to be able to sell a commercial version, I don't
> > see how they could have been more accomodating then this. Digium can
> >
> They could just use the GPL as is, since they chose the license in the
> first place.. they clearly have no issues with it.
>
> They already have the rights to use the code granted by the GPL - that's
> not what the disclaimer is for.
>
> The disclaimer gives them the same rights as the owner so they can
> relicense the contributed code under a non-GPL license for commercial
> reasons. Not everyone is happy with that, clearly.


I understand, that's why I said 'Being that Digium wants to be able to sell
a commercial version'.

TBH I'd rather digium had chosen something like BSD to start with and
> avoided all the GPL politics but the situation we have is the one we have.


Agreed.
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