[asterisk-users] A Question about Management/Control Protocol Licensing

[Matthew Jordan]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Paul Belanger <paul.belanger at polybeacon.com
> wrote:

> On 13-12-11 03:15 PM, Steve Murphy wrote:
>
>> I see the following paragraph in the Asterisk trunk LICENSE file:
>>
>> "In addition, Asterisk implements two management/control protocols: the
>> Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) and the Asterisk Gateway Interface
>> (AGI). It is our belief that applications using these protocols to
>> manage or control an Asterisk instance do not have to be licensed
>> under the GPL or a compatible license, as we believe these protocols
>> do not create a 'derivative work' as referred to in the GPL. However,
>> should any court or other judiciary body find that these protocols do
>> fall under the terms of the GPL, then we hereby grant you a license to
>> use these protocols in combination with Asterisk in external
>> applications licensed under any license you wish."
>>
>> This probably originated some years ago, and I wonder if Digium or the
>> Asterisk
>> community might consider adding the OTHER management/control protocols to
>> this
>> list: ARI, and the ExternalIVR interface.
>>
>> If not, it might be instructive to learn why!
>>
>>  Would also like to see this update to include ARI. We talked a little
> about it at astridevcon, and I think it is likely an oversight.
>
>
It isn't an oversight. It's on my ToDo list (and this item is an action
item on the wiki as well). We had the Thanksgiving holiday; then I was out
last week at AdhearsionConf (great conference!). The licensing file will
get updated before 12 is released.

As an aside, we also had conversations about it on the asterisk-app-dev
list [1], where I responded that I would get answers to the licensing
questions. Granted, it has been much longer than a week or two - mea culpa
on a bad time estimate.

[1]
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-app-dev/2013-October/000127.html

Matt

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