On 25 Jul 2004 at 11:29, Peter Svensson wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Under the same thought signing away your rights to the work lets > > digum to take asterisk out of gpl at will, perhaps after the open > > source community has made it a viable and over all profitable > > software platform? > > To a very large extent it _is_ Digium that develops Asterisk. > > > I think the licensing is just a ruse to steal the software in a legal > > way at some future date while allowing them to keep a public domain > > source branch they can do as they please with, IMHO. > > So what if they offer non-gpl:ed versions that allow proprietary > extensions to be made?
Thats illegal. So what is most people don't mind, its still against the law and as a company they they must be held liable. >As long as Digium offers their version as gpl as > well we are not that bad off, the rest of us will only miss some > extensions made by those vendors. If Digium stops providing a gpl:ed > version at all the last gpl:Ed version can be forked and the community can > still work from that point on. As I said that is only possible if they (digum) do not limit access to the source before they do so; hence why unbiased mirrors of the cvs and the releases need to be mirrored beyond digiums control as well. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
