On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:28, Olle E. Johansson wrote: > The problem is in the Asterisk licensing, where Digium prefers to > have copyright on the Asterisk code base, and have two licensing > schemes, one commercial and one GPL Open Source.
Sorry if I rant, but that is not correct, and it is one of the common misperceptions that makes people not want to contribute back to open source projects. Digium does NOT have a copyright on the codebase. Code contributed to Asterisk is copyright by the ORIGINAL AUTHOR, unless that author chooses to release it into the public domain (thus expiring copyright) or to assign the copyright to Digium. Digium gets a disclaimer stating that they are free to use that code with no restrictions, but unless the author specifically assigns his copyright to Digium, Digium does NOT have copyright on contributed code. For a very clear example, take a look at apps/app_sayunixtime.c, for which I own the copyright (though I've released it with no restrictions on usage). -Tilghman _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
