On 10/8/05, Jeremy McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Even if they finally get it, do you think they really care? Sounds to me like they are perfectly fine with violating a license if they don't agree with it, and think they can get away with it.
What gets me is that they are completely blinded to the fact that any smart business person after reading this thread will now avoid them like the plague.
The good thing is you don't have to sue them, they will simply self destruct.
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