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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>--<br>Matt Watson<br><a href="http://www.mattgwatson.ca">http://www.mattgwatson.ca</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Steve Totaro <<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Steve Totaro <<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com" target="_blank">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Steve Underwood <<a href="mailto:steveu@coppice.org" target="_blank">steveu@coppice.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Vinícius Fontes wrote:<br>
> 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.<br>
><br>
</div>The problem is that almost any licence term which tries to limit the<br>
obnoxious behaviour of other people has too many unpleasant side<br>
effects. GPL 2.0 is the best compromise I've found, so that is what I<br>
used for everything unless recently. To make my stuff licence compatible<br>
with FreeSwitch I recently relicenced most of my work as LGPL 2.1. This<br>
is having undesirable consequences, though. Its really a tough issue,<br>
and GPL 2.0 showed immense foresight in just accepting the non-existence<br>
of perfect solutions. GPL 3 seems to have forgotten the lesson somewhat.<br>
<br>
Most of the time I just want to give up producing anything at all.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Steve<br>
</font><div><div></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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? <br><br>The answer to that should guide you in how you release your work in the future.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div><br>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div>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 ;)<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Steve<br>
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