I believe the term he was looking for was the "LESSER" GPL.... http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
Just my 2c, I would LOVE to see asterisk LGPL'd.... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Spencer Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:00 AM To: Distributed Universal Number Discovery Cc: Randy Bush; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dundi] Re: VoIP peering & routing protocols (revisited) There is no "limited GPL". It's either GPL or not, and DUNDi *is* GPL. Mark On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Todd wrote: > > At 11:15 AM -1000 on 4/19/05, Randy Bush wrote: >> does DUNDi not have the additional problem of not being open-license? >> >> randy > > While I am not familiar with the intricacies of GPL vs. limited GPL vs. [fill > in license X], I will say that the DUNDi protocol was developed with the > intention of becoming an RFC, so I would hope that the intent was to make the > protocol a license-free effort, even though there is certainly good precedent > for that not being the case on other standards proposals > <coughMICROSOFTcough>. While the Asterisk implementation of DUNDi may > currently be under the Asterisk/Digium modified/limited GPL, I don't know if > the protocol itself is under the same license scheme. I would suspect "No", > but simple questions like this tend to take up far too much time on various > mailing lists, so no assumption is safe. I typically delete those > conversation threads, as they typically contain hysteria, ignorance, or > arrogance in varying blends and quantities. I would suggest that everyone > who has an interest in such things to talk to a lawyer for firm determination > thereof, or move to a country where such questions are legally irrelevant. > > I simply wish everyone would move to BSD licenses, to avoid these headaches > and FUD, though I'm certain even that could be argued ad infinitum. Welcome > to the planet of lawyers. > > References: > http://www.asterisk.org/ > http://www.dundi.com/ > > > JT > > > _______________________________________________ > Dundi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/dundi > _______________________________________________ Dundi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/dundi _______________________________________________ Dundi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/dundi
