[asterisk-users] (announce) asterisk T.38 gateway

[Matt Watson]

I'd probably be a little pissed if I were Steve Underwood if somebody
pocketed over 10k $USD for taking credit for a product that my free library
did the bulk of the work for.

I don;t think i'd feel that the entire bounty should be mine - after all
there would of been nothing stopping me from doing it myself... but credit
should be given where credit is due.   Even if its just something as a sign
of appreciation.

Given that spandsp is GPL'd Steve obviously never intended to make a ton of
money off of it... but I;m sure he'd love to receive something for his work,
or use some of that money to further develop spandsp.

That being said... i;m also quite pleased to see T.38 support being worked
on for Asterisk... its a pretty important area to further develop IMHO.

--
Matt Watson
http://www.mattgwatson.ca


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Steve Totaro <
stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Steve Totaro <
> stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Vinícius Fontes wrote:
>>> > When people release software under the GPL license, like Steve
>>> Underwood did with libunicall, spandsp and so on, they were supposed to know
>>> that other people has the right to use their code.
>>> >
>>> The problem is that almost any licence term which tries to limit the
>>> obnoxious behaviour of other people has too many unpleasant side
>>> effects. GPL 2.0 is the best compromise I've found, so that is what I
>>> used for everything unless recently. To make my stuff licence compatible
>>> with FreeSwitch I recently relicenced most of my work as LGPL 2.1. This
>>> is having undesirable consequences, though. Its really a tough issue,
>>> and GPL 2.0 showed immense foresight in just accepting the non-existence
>>> of perfect solutions. GPL 3 seems to have forgotten the lesson somewhat.
>>>
>>> Most of the time I just want to give up producing anything at all.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> So are you angry that he may gain monetarily from your your work, or is it
>> hurt pride that he is basically taking credit for it?
>>
>> The answer to that should guide you in how you release your work in the
>> future.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Totaro
>>
>>
> I also want to add that if someone asked me to name the top five names that
> came to mind when thinking of Asterisk, Jim Dixon, Mark Spencer, Steve
> Underwood, Nicolas Gudino, and I will leave off the fifth as to not leave
> anybody out ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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