'illegal' is the wrong term, please stop using it. There is no legality involved.
Yes you are right - sorry about this approximation.
Whether you are allowed to do that or not depends on the language in the OpenH.323 license; if it does not allow its libraries to be linked with GPL software (for whatever reason), then you do not have the right to do that, regardless of whether you distribute the result or not.
Yes, I do agree. So basically you have the right to link two programs as long as each licenses give you, as an end-user, the right to link the program. We're going in circles :)
Now, /I/ don't think distributing a build script to do just that is infrigement. This doesn't seem to be Alex's case.
In this case, since the licenses for OpenSSL and OpenH.323 are "more free" than the GPL, I don't think that an end-user doing this linking is violating the license of either Asterisk or the add-on package.
Agreed. Hence, if OpenPBX wanted to distribute a 'contrib' directory with some scripts that can be used by the end user to easily download and link these packages to their OpenPBX, I don't think they would be doing any evil. And this kind of freedom is a /good/ thing.
Just like it would be right for Asterisk to do exactly that. Including for bristuff patches *ahem* ;-)
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