[asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

[Rob Hillis]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> I'm also curious as to why you assert that using G.729 in Asterisk
>> (/not/ ABE) at the same time as a T.38 implementation that relies on
>> SpanDSP since these are two completely separate plugins that are
>> installed and acquired separately.  
>>     
>
> They are not installed separately. They are modules loaded into the same
> memory space. 
>   

Absolutely they are installed separately.  G.729 is a product you
/purchase/ and the install onto your Asterisk server and load as a
completely separate module to app_fax.  The fact that they are /written/
by the same company is irrelevant.

>> That's almost like asserting that
>> you can't run any commercial X application if you've installed my XYZ
>> web browser on the same machine.   Just because they use a common
>> software base (X in this instance) /doesn't/ mean that you're violating
>> the GPL by running non commercial software on the same machine.
>>     
>
> Those are two separate processes. Completely separate from one another.
> This is a common misunderstanding of the GPL (or of the application of
> copyrights laws to computer software).
>   

Perhaps not the best example.  Perhaps a better example is the
/proprietary/ nvidia video driver used by a large number of people with
NVidia hardware - myself included.  Granted, x.org is not released under
the GPL license, however assuming it was then by your logic you wouldn't
be able to use the nvidia driver.

To my mind, this is a ridiculous situation and needlessly limiting.  It
goes from the ridiculous IP extremes of companies such as Microsoft to
the other end of the scale.  I am yet to find /any/ situation where any
kind of extremism is a good thing.  If the FSF starts trying to enforce
conditions such as these, they're going to look every bit as bad as the
companies such as Microsoft or Lexmark have in the past and do
themselves some significant damage.

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