[asterisk-users] Re: Asterisk Faxing Support

[Stefan Wintermeyer]

Am 10.02.2007 um 14:06 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> No. RedHat publish the full sources (as easily-rebuildable source
> packages) to all the packages in RHEL. This is why CentOS is possible.
>
> Digium may just as well *bundle* code of that sort in Asterisk  
> (e.g: as
> a separate AGI script, or whatever). The pproblem is that linking  
> such a
> code into Asterisk makes it (for the common interpertation of the
> copyrights laws) a part of Asterisk.
>
> So Digium cannot use exactly the same strategy as RedHat if it  
> wants to
> allow people to link propietary modules with Asterisk. And this is the
> major difference.

An other difference is that the dual license gives Digium the  
possibility to sell their code to other PBX vendors which might like  
to delete the word "Asterisk" or "Digium" out of their end product.  
MySQL does the same.

   Stefan

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