Digium owns the copyright, but licensed the code under GPL. So if Digium quit the open source project to only improve a proprietary version, the project would just fork and others would most likely carry on with that. As it turns out, the project has already forked: http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php
So Asterisk users who want to remain open source would likely switch to that project. They wouldn't have to re-write Asterisk. However, because of this, Digium is very unlikely to quit open source. Besides, I'd say Mark Spencer would have to be bought out first because he'd never allow it. Scott C. Savinovich wrote: >>>> Digium's value is ownership of the copyright on Asterisk code. >>>> > > Yes Alex, but why will anybody pay top money for that code, if it can be > written again by other people? (albeit with effort) > > Code is not a unique item. > > C. Savinovich > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
