On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 10:19 -0700, Lee Howard wrote: > What I am saying, though, is that Digium didn't give out royalty-free > proprietary licenses to Asterisk, instead, they gave out GPL licenses to > Asterisk. Why, then, do they require that contributions are made any > differently? Why do they require freedoms with contribution that they > did not give with theirs? Well, probably because they believe that > they're owed that, and probably because many others in the community not > unlike yourself agree with that opinion as well.
There was some discussion about a month or so ago, and a digium rep piped up to even help try to clarify this particular issue if memory serves. You do not give up your copyright on your contributed code. You do not have to give them full rights to your code if you do not wish to. You have an option to contribute GPL only code. If this is incorrect I fully expect a digium employee to speak up, but if I remember correctly that is what was said at the end of the previous thread. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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