On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 04:35 -0500, Mitul Limbani wrote: > Hello, > > ABE is an answer to all the proprietory solution provider who want to > include asterisk in their production environment. > not the only one though, as the GPL only matters for distribution, not use.
> I personally do not see any specific advantage of it over GPL one, > apart from all the glossy printed manual :) (voip-info.org holds more > info then it) The biggest advantage is that you can use digium code and derive other works that are not gpl. The key issue isnt a concern since the courts ruled that lock out codes arent copyrightable (and thus not protected, not available for gpl license terms, etc). This was in the lexmark case most recently but that was based on supreme court rulings from days gone by. So if you have a clean build environment (meaning you dont use digium code) you can build modules and distribute them with a closed license, just not distributed with gpl stuff, since again the gpl covers distribution not use. -- 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