On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 18:59 -0800, Shahed wrote: > Hi All, > > > Personally I don't really approve of a company just taking Digium's > > design and cloning it. Based on the information on ipvolution.com, it > > doesn't look like that's what Atacomm is doing. > > Are the digium cards (or maybe just the digital ones) themselves > not based on the opensource design of zapatatelephony.org ?
The old Tor2/T400P card is GPLed, as is the original 2 span ISA tormenta card. But not any of the other cards. > AFAIK, ipvolution would have to make any code that asterisk > links against, available under GPL. So if they make their drivers > and channel code available, its OK (??). In asterisk, yes.. > What about their propiotary hardware dsp stuff ? Do they have to > make that code available too, before anyone can use asterisk with > their hardware ?? No they don't have to release DSP code. It is their option. > I wonder if, when their card is released, if it does affect digium, > would that perhaps affect asterisk itself ?? > > The only reason I ask is because, such questions are always raised > by sceptics, when they consider big companies Vs Opensource PBX. > i.e Question of stability and continiuaty of the project. The difference here is a single crooked officer can take down a proprietary company where as you can always squirel away a copy of all the code and develop it yourself if you need continual support. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users