On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:37 -0500, Scott Plante wrote: > Digium owns the copyright, but licensed the code under GPL.
Technically digium doesnt own all the copyright. They own a trademark on the name 'asterisk' and they own some of the copyrights. What they have is carte blanche on licensing. The disclaimer does not assign copyright to digium, the individual coders still own that (and they can do whatever they personally want with their code), however they gave digium the right to license any contributions any way digium sees fit. This was the way from either the very begining or very close to it, as if the plan was always to commercialize the project in parallel with the open one. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --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
