On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Jean-Michel Hiver 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. > > This is complete nonsense. The end user can do /whatever he likes/ with > GPL software, /including linking it with commercial software/. The GPL > restrictions only apply to /redistribution rights/. Let's not be pedantic, you know what jerjer meant.
> So openpbx could release a couple of handy scripts so that end users can > easily link the software with whatever they like and there would be no > infringement. That's a very slippery slope, possibly contributory copyright infringement. -alex _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz