Jeremy McNamara wrote:
Paul wrote:
The patent owners would view locally compiled GPL asterisk and a GPL
fork of asterisk equally. If they permit me to buy codec licenses
from digium and use them with an asterisk that I have modified there
is no reason to prevent me from doing the same with a fork.
You do not understand. Only the copyright holder of the GPL software
can allow non-gpl software to link with their GPL Licensed software.
Open H.323, Open SSL and G.729 are not GPL licensed, hence only Digium
can wave the GPL rights for those features to exist in Asterisk - Any
forked project does not have the right to grant such exceptions.
Jeremy, I fully understand your explanation.
The question that raises is: How does a GPL fork differ enough to lose
those waivers? Suppose I write several thousand lines of GPL patches to
a GPL-released asterisk. I put the patch set and the original asterisk
tarball on my ftp/http servers. I don't see much difference between that
and a forked project as far as license issues go.
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