[Dundi] Re: VoIP peering & routing protocols (revisited)

[John Todd]

At 11:15 AM -1000 on 4/19/05, Randy Bush wrote:
>does DUNDi not have the additional problem of not being open-license?
>
>randy

While I am not familiar with the intricacies of GPL vs. limited GPL 
vs. [fill in license X], I will say that the DUNDi protocol was 
developed with the intention of becoming an RFC, so I would hope that 
the intent was to make the protocol a license-free effort, even 
though there is certainly good precedent for that not being the case 
on other standards proposals <coughMICROSOFTcough>.  While the 
Asterisk implementation of DUNDi may currently be under the 
Asterisk/Digium modified/limited GPL, I don't know if the protocol 
itself is under the same license scheme.  I would suspect "No", but 
simple questions like this tend to take up far too much time on 
various mailing lists, so no assumption is safe.  I typically delete 
those conversation threads, as they typically contain hysteria, 
ignorance, or arrogance in varying blends and quantities.  I would 
suggest that everyone who has an interest in such things to talk to a 
lawyer for firm determination thereof, or move to a country where 
such questions are legally irrelevant.

I simply wish everyone would move to BSD licenses, to avoid these 
headaches and FUD, though I'm certain even that could be argued ad 
infinitum.  Welcome to the planet of lawyers.

References:
http://www.asterisk.org/
http://www.dundi.com/


JT