Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
- Original Message - From: asterisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org The other thing that I think many are missing is the recent deal with Intel and finally I remember that the Digium backed Asterisk Certification was unfair and pricy since many guru developers would still need to take the exam to become certified just to line a few people's pocket even thought they probably know more than the people teaching the cert course. I don't really want to get sucked into the whole openpbx thing but I did just want to comment one point in this part: I took the opportunity to do the Asterisk Certification Exam at Astricon Europe (I did not do the training course, however I did manage to pass). My impression of the multi choice 'theory' part of the exam is that it was written deliberately to encourage people to undertake the paid training course. A number of the questions were involved with stuff that someone building asterisk systems would never ever have to deal with or think about such as the vendors behind some of the VOIP standards, other esoteric historical information that would never be used, and various obscure asterisk command line switches and cli commands. Of course, I'm sure that the paid training course has a couple hours devoted to such things. The practical part of the exam showed a distinct USA bias - It was in terms of T1's and analog zap extensions. I am from Australia, and the exam was in Europe, these parts of the world generally use BRI ISDN and PRI E1 with hdb3 and crc4 line protocols and channel 16 as the D channel. I'm not sure about Europe, but in Australia up until very recently the Zaptel analog cards were not certified for connection to the PSTN, which makes knowledge of them irrelevant for this part of the world. I don't know how to configure a T1 and I probably will never need to in my * career. The certification testing should be regionalised for the specific country or part of the world it is being administered in. Since the exam I have heard nothing, no congratulatory email, no certificate with a dCAP membership number, no login to a website or dCAP community forum etc. No access to digium or asterisk logos to put on my business cards or website, no listing of certified people on the Digium website. So at the moment I don't really see what benefit there is to paying a couple hundred dollars for the exam. Sure, I tell people that I am certified, but if they ask for proof I have none to give. I did email Digium about this and received a vague reply about printing up and mailing out some plaques at some time in the future. To me it almost seems like Digium are treating their dCAPS as competition rather than partners given the lack of support to date. Craig Thanks, Steve ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:50:54PM -0300, Doug Meredith wrote: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: too much divergence and we have two pieces of software competing for each other. My guess is that if they succeed, they will diverge significantly. We will have two pieces of software that work with each other at well-defined interfaces. The development of internal workings may diverge. -- Mike ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Mike M wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:50:54PM -0300, Doug Meredith wrote: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: too much divergence and we have two pieces of software competing for each other. My guess is that if they succeed, they will diverge significantly. We will have two pieces of software that work with each other at well-defined interfaces. The development of internal workings may diverge. Well-defined interfaces is what I like to see even if there are never any forks. Things like XMLRPC or SOAP interfaces that are blessed by asterisk will motivate some of us to contribute more to the community. I find it easier to settle down and produce a complete application(even with some comments in the source) when I know it works against a well-defined interface - one that will persist for several releases. Disclaimer - don't construe my mention of XMLRPC/SOAP as an endorsement or preference. That would start a whole new thread. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
snacktime wrote: permit to be used for their contributions.. They won't be happy unless everyone else does things their way. They wouldn't be happy if asterisk was BSD or MIT licensed either. No that's not true. I myself would be perfectly happy with an MPL. However, because Asterisk is available under a GPL formed license, any fork will need to be GPL too, until such a time that any and all GPL code has been replaced by something the prospective owners are willing to relicense under something else. FLorian ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/9/05, Florian Overkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snacktime wrote: permit to be used for their contributions..They won't be happy unless everyone else does things their way.They wouldn't be happy if asterisk was BSD or MIT licensed either. No that's not true. I myself would be perfectly happy with an MPL.However, because Asterisk is available under a GPL formed license, anyfork will need to be GPL too, until such a time that any and all GPLcode has been replaced by something the prospective owners are willing to relicense under something else.FLorian A fork can be anything you want if you own the copyright. They could fork asterisk into a BSD license tommorrow if they wanted to. Or actually it would be a combination of BSD and public domain, with all new code going under BSD. The people who don't like ABE wouldn't be happy with BSD, because what they dont' like is that Digium can take their contributions and release them as part of a closed source product. A BSD license would allow that just like owning the copyright does. Personally I look at it like this. Until the point comes that Digium is contributing less to asterisk then the rest of the community has, then the community is gaining more than they have given. If I contribute code to asterisk which Digium sells for a profit via ABE, that's great. I still have access to asterisk which is worth a lot more than the small part I have contributed. I win, Digium wins, I dont' see the problem. The code I contributed I probably needed anways. And without asterisk I wouldn't have anything at all. And in addition, the more money Digium makes the better asterisk will be which also benefits me in the long run. Chris ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
I am astounded by the total lack of integrity people have displayed here. Digium gave you Asterisk, and yet you turn around and stab them in the back. As this is the Asterisk Users mailing list and this product will cease to be Asterisk the moment it is forked, I don't really want to see any more spamming from the OpenPBX crew. -- Cheers, Matt Riddell ___ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Interesting. In their meeting minutes (http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php?page=Meeting+Minutes+10-5-2005) I see that a BKW was elected to the board. Is this Brian West? LOL!!! And the truth comes out. Children throwing their toys because they don't have enough power... -- Cheers, Matt Riddell ___ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Tony Mountifield wrote: Yes, it looks like the main people behind it are bkw, anthm and moc. They will be a great loss to the Asterisk community if they go off and only do their own thing. I'm not sure I agree with that. If your friend stabs you in the back, is it really a great loss if they subsequently leave? -- Cheers, Matt Riddell ___ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Matt Riddell a écrit : Tony Mountifield wrote: Yes, it looks like the main people behind it are bkw, anthm and moc. They will be a great loss to the Asterisk community if they go off and only do their own thing. I'm not sure I agree with that. If your friend stabs you in the back, is it really a great loss if they subsequently leave? Stop about the stabbing in the back issue. If Digium didn't want people to be able to fork their software, they wouldn't have used the GPL. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
*PLONK* -- Cheers, Matt Riddell ___ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Matt Riddell a écrit : *PLONK* I was only stating the obvious... sorry you don't like it. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sun, October 9, 2005 15:31, Matt Riddell said: *PLONK* -- Cheers, Matt Riddell Is that the sound of you dropping out of this list? It can't be a reply to the previous poster's e-mail, as that was in fact a completely correct statement... But back to the topic: I can see the reasons why Digium does what they do, but I can also appreciate the reasons behind openpbx.org! It's a risk Digium took willingly and knowingly. They must have known from the start that this was a risk, but it is a risk they took, I guess with in the back of their minds the realisation that the risk would most likely be worth it in return for the contributions they'd get to the source-tree... I for one will keep track of both to see which one develops best. For now I am in the (*) camp, but if they lose ground in regard to openpbx.org, I may switch. That is the nice thing about Open Source: you *can* switch, and the best project(s) will survive... Just my 0,02! -- Francesco Peeters GPG Key = AA69 E7C6 1D8A F148 160C D5C4 9943 6E38 D5E3 7704 If your program doesn't recognize my signature, please visit http://www.CAcert.org/index.php?id=3 to retrieve the Root CA certificate. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE : [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Very funny discussion :) Same thing arrives with a lot of Gpl softwares, A few months ago, it was another Voip software wich forked (Sip Express Router aka Ser), there were pro and cons, now the discussion is finished and they all cooperate. Olivier -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Jean-Michel Hiver Envoyé : dimanche 9 octobre 2005 15:35 À : Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Objet : Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Matt Riddell a écrit : *PLONK* I was only stating the obvious... sorry you don't like it. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sunday 09 October 2005 09:08, Matt Riddell wrote: Digium gave you Asterisk, and yet you turn around and stab them in the back. As this is the Asterisk Users mailing list and this product will cease to be Asterisk the moment it is forked, I don't really want to see any more spamming from the OpenPBX crew. Actually Digium gave the core of Asterisk. There is a *lot* of code in there that didn't come FROM Digium, but rather that Digium has incorporated and made a part of Asterisk. Further, I think the *vast* majority of the issues people have with Digium and Asterisk have nothing to do with licensing but rather the feelings of abandonment and undisclosed and undocumented development coming FROM Digium. Things HAVE gotten better significantly over the last little while (I constantly point to Kevin Fleming's hiring as the turning point) but from the outside it really does feel like a lot of the issues people bring up with Asterisk and Asterisk Development are flippantly written off by Mark, if not just silently ignored. Issues with hardware, issues with software... some with patches that seem to work very well are just ignored in favour of some new feature or implementation of an old feature. It's very infuriating. Now I'm not one of the OpenPBX folk; I still run and work on and complain about Asterisk. I *want* to see Mark, and to a bigger degree Digium, succeed. I am doing what I can to help that happen. The OpenPBX fork happened for very real and very important issues, and I do hope that Mark and Digium takes notice and doesn't just write off these people or their reasonings. In the same vein, I hope that the OpenPBX fork finds its original reasons again, because the talk in the IRC channel and such has shifted significantly. It's no longer about fixing Asterisk's problems, it's about new paradigms and core rewrites and total scalability... It very very much feels to me that it's all about ego now and not about anything technical. There are some very, very smart people working on it, people I am personally saddened to see shift their focus off of Asterisk, and I hope that Digium is too. However if they don't regain their focus we'll end up with YAOSTP -- Yet Another Open Source Telephony Project -- and one that looks like it will be forever stuck in the design phase. I've been in design and development for over ten years now and it's always sad to see this kind of thing happen. Forks *can* be good. I am part of the Vexi Project (http://www.vexi.org) fork from Ibex (nee XWT). This was a good fork. OpenPBX could be another good fork. Only time will tell. -A. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Actually Digium gave the core of Asterisk. There is a *lot* of code in there that didn't come FROM Digium, but rather that Digium has incorporated and made a part of Asterisk. Of course!! Well understood and agreed. Further, I think the *vast* majority of the issues people have with Digium and Asterisk have nothing to do with licensing but rather the feelings of abandonment and undisclosed and undocumented development coming FROM Digium. Things HAVE gotten better significantly over the last little while (I constantly point to Kevin Fleming's hiring as the turning point) but from the outside it really does feel like a lot of the issues people bring up with Asterisk and Asterisk Development are flippantly written off by Mark, if not just silently ignored. Issues with hardware, issues with software... some with patches that seem to work very well are just ignored in favour of some new feature or implementation of an old feature. It's very infuriating. But why couldn't it have been brought into the public forum and discussed? Now I'm not one of the OpenPBX folk; I still run and work on and complain about Asterisk. I *want* to see Mark, and to a bigger degree Digium, succeed. I am doing what I can to help that happen. The OpenPBX fork happened for very real and very important issues, and I do hope that Mark and Digium takes notice and doesn't just write off these people or their reasonings. In the same vein, I hope that the OpenPBX fork finds its original reasons again, because the talk in the IRC channel and such has shifted significantly. It's no longer about fixing Asterisk's problems, it's about new paradigms and core rewrites and total scalability... It very very much feels to me that it's all about ego now and not about anything technical. Hmmm I don't know. I have heard rumours of things like ./configure which would be really nice if they were in Asterisk. There are some very, very smart people working on it, people I am personally saddened to see shift their focus off of Asterisk, and I hope that Digium is too. However if they don't regain their focus we'll end up with YAOSTP -- Yet Another Open Source Telephony Project -- and one that looks like it will be forever stuck in the design phase. I've been in design and development for over ten years now and it's always sad to see this kind of thing happen. Indeed. Coupled with a bad day, it's incredibly sad. But I'm sure as time passes on, the wounds will be healed and as someone else stated, code will begin to flow in both directions. After all there will be no easier platform to port code between than another Asterisk-based system. Forks *can* be good. I am part of the Vexi Project (http://www.vexi.org) fork from Ibex (nee XWT). This was a good fork. OpenPBX could be another good fork. Only time will tell. Agreed. It's nice to have a measured rather than inflammatory post on the subject (I say this full well knowing I have been flaming for the past hour), as it acts to slightly dampen the situation and allows all to view it in a more measured manner. As you say, only time will tell. -- Cheers, Matt Riddell ___ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sunday 09 October 2005 11:36, Matt Riddell wrote: [ issues with Asterisk development ] But why couldn't it have been brought into the public forum and discussed? It has been. Over, and Over, and Over again. On here, on -dev and on IRC. Many times. [openpbx design changes] Hmmm I don't know. I have heard rumours of things like ./configure which would be really nice if they were in Asterisk. Yes there are many things that would be nice to get into Asterisk. It's been rumoured that ./configure will never be in Asterisk, and if that's a dealbreaker, then yeah... I guess you're screwed. My personal opinion is that all the little shitty things in Asterisk need to take priority to newfangled hoo-hah. CVS HEAD development needs to center around fixing the bugs and inconsistencies and THEN go back to features. It'll never happen, though. :-( branching for 1.2 and doing it there isn't good enough, IMO. There needs to be a long, boring time of development where the odd shit gets squashed by the core smart people. Indeed. Coupled with a bad day, it's incredibly sad. But I'm sure as time passes on, the wounds will be healed and as someone else stated, code will begin to flow in both directions. After all there will be no easier platform to port code between than another Asterisk-based system. Agreed. Agreed. It's nice to have a measured rather than inflammatory post on the subject (I say this full well knowing I have been flaming for the past hour), as it acts to slightly dampen the situation and allows all to view it in a more measured manner. :-) A little flame now and again is good for the soul. It lets people know that you're passionate about the subject. -A. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Tony Mountifield wrote: Yes, it looks like the main people behind it are bkw, anthm and moc. They will be a great loss to the Asterisk community if they go off and only do their own thing. I'm not sure I agree with that. If your friend stabs you in the back, is it really a great loss if they subsequently leave? -- Cheers, Matt Riddell I dont see how any backstabbing was done. Over the past two years I have seen this coming. First with the dual licensing, many people over the years brought up what implications this may have in the future. Many people said that if Digium went to a closed source distribution based on code that the project would fork. Other people worked on it, generally thinking it would just be used under the GPL, not really thinking about ABE. With the ABE version that a fork was called for. The other thing that I think many are missing is the recent deal with Intel and finally I remember that the Digium backed Asterisk Certification was unfair and pricy since many guru developers would still need to take the exam to become certified just to line a few people's pocket even thought they probably know more than the people teaching the cert course. When I first stumbled accross asterisk, I predicted all of this over two years ago. The (civic) republican theory of the Second Amendment holds that the citizenry's right to bear arms is necessary to prevent tyrannical governments from abridging liberty. Instead of guns, we have the GPL and the ability to fork. I am neutral and I can see both sides of the arguement. I think a fork is a great idea and anyone that says, it will fail and threaten legal involvment does not really think it will fail but will do whatever they can to make it fail. Thanks, Steve PS. I think that the openpbx.org crew should show some class and not post to this list anymore. Create your own list. Make sure that google results for asterisk turn up openpbx.org and even recruit people by sending direct emails to he desired talent pool. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:43:28PM -0400, Paul wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: It's not harder. It's just different. A number of things have similar requirements. The ISDN4Linux folk have certain versions of their software approved by the telecoms bodies in Europe. They need to tie down exactly what was approved, so any other versions emit a notice that says they are unapproved versions. They do this with a signature on the approved version. It seems to work out OK. From the ISDN4Linux FAQs: Actually, since April 2000 the rules for certification have changed. Now the producer of an ISDN card has to do only hardware tests, the driver is not part of the certification anymore. This applies to the whole European Community. http://www.isdn4linux.de/faq/i4lfaq-25.html If this is true then perhaps the ruling telecoms have improved their protocol violation defenses and dispensed with the certification process. This would be a Good Thing (tm). I think that the important thing to remember is that a good reverse engineer can take the object code from a rom and produce source files that are better commented than the original source ever was. Reversers are mundane scribes and relics. Their services were valued in the past when software was expensive and poor quality. Free and competitively valued software has devalued their efforts. Besides, it's hard to build a community or support organization around stolen merchandise. Further evidence of their insignificance is the lack of coverage by the media. -- Mike ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Mike M wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:43:28PM -0400, Paul wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: It's not harder. It's just different. A number of things have similar requirements. The ISDN4Linux folk have certain versions of their software approved by the telecoms bodies in Europe. They need to tie down exactly what was approved, so any other versions emit a notice that says they are unapproved versions. They do this with a signature on the approved version. It seems to work out OK. From the ISDN4Linux FAQs: Actually, since April 2000 the rules for certification have changed. Now the producer of an ISDN card has to do only hardware tests, the driver is not part of the certification anymore. This applies to the whole European Community. http://www.isdn4linux.de/faq/i4lfaq-25.html If this is true then perhaps the ruling telecoms have improved their protocol violation defenses and dispensed with the certification process. This would be a Good Thing (tm). I think that the important thing to remember is that a good reverse engineer can take the object code from a rom and produce source files that are better commented than the original source ever was. Reversers are mundane scribes and relics. Their services were valued in the past when software was expensive and poor quality. Free and competitively valued software has devalued their efforts. Besides, it's hard to build a community or support organization around stolen merchandise. Further evidence of their insignificance is the lack of coverage by the media. Mike, the context was regarding security by obscurity. It has nothing to do with stealing a product to sell to others. The only reverse engineering I ever did had nothing at all to do with bootlegging or counterfeiting software. The closest I ever came to that was reversal for the purpose of proving it contained stolen goods. By the way, I am not a mundane scribe or a relic by any means. Closest I ever came to being a scribe is putting a signature of mine in pcb copper and some silicon. I also left my signature in the leftover gates of some array logic. Calling me a scribe or relic is a rather hefty insult, don't you think? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:51:41PM -0400, Paul wrote: Mike M wrote: Mike, the context was regarding security by obscurity. It has nothing to do with stealing a product to sell to others. The only reverse engineering I ever did had nothing at all to do with bootlegging or counterfeiting software. The closest I ever came to that was reversal for the purpose of proving it contained stolen goods. By the way, I am not a mundane scribe or a relic by any means. Closest I ever came to being a scribe is putting a signature of mine in pcb copper and some silicon. I also left my signature in the leftover gates of some array logic. Calling me a scribe or relic is a rather hefty insult, don't you think? The context of reversing was difficult to discern from repeated readings. The message seemed to be to not bother closing software because it can be reversed easily and the source can be better than the original. I supposed you were describing hypothetical abstract possibilites and not actual occurences. My responses were similarly abstract. I admit there can be legally justifiable reasons for reversing, or that it could be a form of archaelogy, but the original statement did not suggest these cases. Now that your context, meaning, and intent are clearly defined, it's evident you should not take umbrage with the description of reversers as scribes and relics as those terms do not apply to you. Besides, illegitimate reversers can't complain about being insulted because they run the risk of being exposed. And then their contacts can be investigated for possible license violations. Reversing to exploit security weakness is most likely very effective. I agree with you that securing by keeping software closed is folly. Opening the software does not make it secure either. I return to my original point: Keeping software closed is done only when you can't figure out how to have it open. The point that launched this sub-discussion was that Asterisk has a dual license and OpenPBX does not. The underlying assumption is that the commercial license for Asterisk is for a closed source super-implementation of the project. Could this be a competitive advantage? As you point out, there are certainly no security advantages. There could be some commercial advantages that currently exist for Asterisk that might be altered with the presence of OpenPBX. -- Mike ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Mike M wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:51:41PM -0400, Paul wrote: Mike M wrote: Mike, the context was regarding security by obscurity. It has nothing to do with stealing a product to sell to others. The only reverse engineering I ever did had nothing at all to do with bootlegging or counterfeiting software. The closest I ever came to that was reversal for the purpose of proving it contained stolen goods. By the way, I am not a mundane scribe or a relic by any means. Closest I ever came to being a scribe is putting a signature of mine in pcb copper and some silicon. I also left my signature in the leftover gates of some array logic. Calling me a scribe or relic is a rather hefty insult, don't you think? The context of reversing was difficult to discern from repeated readings. The message seemed to be to not bother closing software because it can be reversed easily and the source can be better than the original. I supposed you were describing hypothetical abstract possibilites and not actual occurences. My responses were similarly abstract. I admit there can be legally justifiable reasons for reversing, or that it could be a form of archaelogy, but the original statement did not suggest these cases. Now that your context, meaning, and intent are clearly defined, it's evident you should not take umbrage with the description of reversers as scribes and relics as those terms do not apply to you. Besides, illegitimate reversers can't complain about being insulted because they run the risk of being exposed. And then their contacts can be investigated for possible license violations. Reversing to exploit security weakness is most likely very effective. I agree with you that securing by keeping software closed is folly. Opening the software does not make it secure either. I return to my original point: Keeping software closed is done only when you can't figure out how to have it open. The point that launched this sub-discussion was that Asterisk has a dual license and OpenPBX does not. The underlying assumption is that the commercial license for Asterisk is for a closed source super-implementation of the project. Could this be a competitive advantage? As you point out, there are certainly no security advantages. There could be some commercial advantages that currently exist for Asterisk that might be altered with the presence of OpenPBX. The sometimes valid reason for closed source commercial versions is that you can't provide affordable support for a moving target. It's not entirely valid in the case of asterisk. Count the config files and the number of things in those config files a customer can modify. So even if we know he has the exact same binary as our reference version there can be how many different configurations out there to support? Answer is some big number that just gets bigger as more copies are sold. I haven't looked at the ABE license. I wonder if it allows reversing. I can see where reversing is needed. Somebody wants to move from ABE to locally compiled asterisk. They hire me to build an asterisk from the gpl that behaves the same as the ABE they have been using. First thing I would have to do is examine the ABE license and see if it is permissable to do that the fastest way I know because the fastest way I know would use some reversal techniques to match the binaries with the right compile options and patch sets. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
I don't know, after looking at their roadmap I don't get it. It must be the asterisk commit policies that are driving this. They have some good ideas, but they are going about this the wrong way if their goal is to create a successful fork of asterisk. Chris ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 8 Oct 2005, at 09:49, snacktime wrote: I don't know, after looking at their roadmap I don't get it. It must be the asterisk commit policies that are driving this. They have some good ideas, but they are going about this the wrong way if their goal is to create a successful fork of asterisk. If I remember right, OpenPBX folks feel that Digium diverged from the 'right path' when they released ABE. OpenPBX is a response to that. Check on the archives around the ABE announcement to get a flavor. I'm passing _no_ judgement, except to say that some useful projects have been started for eccentric reasons. I started our SNMP stack as the result of someone saying 'Java can't do that' and I just had to prove him wrong :-) Tim. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Mike M wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:45:53PM -0400, Paul wrote: Also consider that there are situations where 100% open source is never allowed. Check out visa/mastercard processor certification for a good example. Digium dual licensing availability means I could actually stand a chance of using asterisk as the basis for systems used by military and law enforcement in applications that require extremely high security. There is a popular vendor of closed source products whose security has been compromised often. The security of OpenSSH is well established. Reading this list iwe learn that the open source version of Asterisk is currently being used by military personnel. Asterisk offers ways for users to implement eavesdropping applications which undermines the goal of attaining extremely high security. Open source is for sharing if that's feasible and closed source is not. Dual licensing is for both. My point was not to argue that closed source enhances security. I was just pointing out that there are situations where the customer will not accept open source. Credit card processing would be a good example. You could design *-based systems for both the client(merchant) and server(processor) functions but last I knew visa/mc would not certify open source solutions. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Paul wrote: Credit card processing would be a good example. You could design *-based systems for both the client(merchant) and server(processor) functions but last I knew visa/mc would not certify open source solutions. Note that you can use whatever license you want for an application that connects to Asterisk via AGI or the manager interface, regardless of whether or not visa/mc would accept free software. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Paul wrote: Credit card processing would be a good example. You could design *-based systems for both the client(merchant) and server(processor) functions but last I knew visa/mc would not certify open source solutions. Note that you can use whatever license you want for an application that connects to Asterisk via AGI or the manager interface, regardless of whether or not visa/mc would accept free software. My guess is that they would object to anything readable by humans. I would be writing c for things easily handled by shell scripts. I find that amusing. I have a lot of experience with disassembly. I have even reverse-engineered machine language code that ran on custom processors which means you have to reverse-engineer the instruction set as part of the task. Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Paul wrote: Credit card processing would be a good example. You could design *-based systems for both the client(merchant) and server(processor) functions but last I knew visa/mc would not certify open source solutions. Note that you can use whatever license you want for an application that connects to Asterisk via AGI or the manager interface, regardless of whether or not visa/mc would accept free software. My guess is that they would object to anything readable by humans. I would be writing c for things easily handled by shell scripts. PERL included? ;-) I find that amusing. I have a lot of experience with disassembly. I have even reverse-engineered machine language code that ran on custom processors which means you have to reverse-engineer the instruction set as part of the task. Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. AGI can't be written in assembly! Anyone up to the task? ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: I find that amusing. I have a lot of experience with disassembly. I have even reverse-engineered machine language code that ran on custom processors which means you have to reverse-engineer the instruction set as part of the task. I think your argument is: Don't require or offer closed source applications since they can be cracked. Similarly we shouldn't lock our doors when we leave home because they can be overridden. Locks, like closed source, are legal barriers that work most of the time for their intended purpose. The discussion of licensing issues on forking Asterisk should assume everyone understands and follows the applicable legal guidelines on software licensing. The earlier point was Asterisk with its commercial license option, and presumably closed source traits, will be required some situations. Having closed source as component of a certified solution is topical ointment enjoyed by purveyors of certificates. If this is true then OpenPBX, lacking a similar license option could be at a competitive disadvantage. But what if OpenPBX attains features that are desireable but uncertifiable because the closed source option does not exist? Then we'll be living in interesting times ( http://www.noblenet.org/reference/inter.htm ). Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. What's the alternative? Open source? Cracking is unnecessary with open source. -- Mike ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0400, Mike M wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. What's the alternative? Open source? Cracking is unnecessary with open source. Search a bit about security by obscurity. Basically if the security of your system depends on a secret you can't easily change, it will get exposed sooner or later. So you should design it to withstand such leakage. E.g: change a password if it was exposed. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Nice smartass remark... of course anyone can register a domain name. Is forking asterisk legal? Of course it is! Asterisk is under the GPL, which means that anyone can fork it at any time for any reason. Look at this in a positive light... many open source projects have forked, and the branches almost always end up feeding on one another. The difference in this case being of course that OpenPBX can happily continue to feed on any good developments (code wise) that happens in Asterisk but due to Digium's dual license restrictions Asterisk will not be able to feed on code that goes into OpenPBX. This means (and this is already the case if you look at the source tree) that other issues aside, OpenPBX should progress quicker in the long term. (That is if you assume that there is good code in Asterisk that the OpenPBX developers wish to use and visa versa) I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces). ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Nice smartass remark... of course anyone can register a domain name. Is forking asterisk legal? Of course it is! Asterisk is under the GPL, which means that anyone can fork it at any time for any reason. Look at this in a positive light... many open source projects have forked, and the branches almost always end up feeding on one another. The difference in this case being of course that OpenPBX can happily continue to feed on any good developments (code wise) that happens in Asterisk but due to Digium's dual license restrictions Asterisk will not be able to feed on code that goes into OpenPBX. This means (and this is already the case if you look at the source tree) that other issues aside, OpenPBX should progress quicker in the long term. (That is if you assume that there is good code in Asterisk that the OpenPBX developers wish to use and visa versa) I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces). Yes they could (I am no expert either) but they can only use it in the GPL version, not in the ABE version. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Rich Adamson wrote: I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces). No, since Asterisk requires that copyright be assigned to Digium for all patches. Submitters to OpenPBX may be unwilling to do this, especially since that's one of the main reasons for its existance... Tony ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Rich Adamson wrote: I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces). Only if the copyright holder(s) of that code choose to disclaim its use by Digium. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Tony Hoyle wrote: No, since Asterisk requires that copyright be assigned to Digium for all patches. Submitters to OpenPBX may be unwilling to do this, especially since that's one of the main reasons for its existance... Please stop spreading misinformation. We have addressed this at least four times in the last six months on this list. Digium does NOT require copyright assignment for contributions to the Asterisk tree. Digium does require either that the code be public domain (unrestricted use), or that Digium be granted a license to reuse the code at our discretion (the disclaimer). ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:43:07PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0400, Mike M wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. What's the alternative? Open source? Cracking is unnecessary with open source. Search a bit about security by obscurity. Basically if the security of your system depends on a secret you can't easily change, it will get exposed sooner or later. So you should design it to withstand such leakage. E.g: change a password if it was exposed. As this was related to Mastercard/Visa, they can allow open source, however the software has to be certified to meet their security specs, which may be harder to accomplish for open source. Steve -- NetTek Ltd Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype / In stevekennedyuk / UK +442088167166 / US +13106518226 Vonage UK +442079932612 / US +13108577715 / UK mob 07775 755503 Personal Blog http://stevekennedy.blogspot.com Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/8/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike M wrote:On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:45:53PM -0400, Paul wrote:Also consider that there are situations where 100% open source is neverallowed. Check out visa/mastercard processor certification for a good example. Digium dual licensing availability means I could actually standa chance of using asterisk as the basis for systems used by military andlaw enforcement in applications that require extremely high security. There is a popular vendor of closed source products whose security has beencompromised often. The security of OpenSSH is well established.Reading this list iwe learn that the open source version of Asterisk is currently being used by military personnel.Asterisk offers ways for users to implement eavesdropping applications whichundermines the goal of attaining extremely high security.Open source is for sharing if that's feasible and closed source is not. Dual licensing is for both.My point was not to argue that closed source enhances security. I wasjust pointing out that there are situations where the customer will notaccept open source. Credit card processing would be a good example. You could design *-basedsystems for both the client(merchant) and server(processor) functionsbut last I knew visa/mc would not certify open source solutions. Off topic but wanted to correct this.. Its not the software that has to be certified, it's the merchant (or payment processor). Ya you can pay a security auditor to look at your software and say that it's compliant, but it doesn't really mean anything. If you are a qualifying merchant or payment processor you would still have to go through the complete audit even if you used 'certified' software. Also, as a merchant you either have to go through the full audit yourself, or use a certified payment gateway. You cannot for example use 'certified' software as a merchant and connect directly to the bank networks without going through the full audit yourself at an average cost of around $20,000. Chris ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/8/05, Kevin P. Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Hoyle wrote: No, since Asterisk requires that copyright be assigned to Digium for all patches. Submitters to OpenPBX may be unwilling to do this, especially since that's one of the main reasons for its existance... Please stop spreading misinformation. We have addressed this at leastfour times in the last six months on this list.Digium does NOT require copyright assignment for contributions to theAsterisk tree. Digium does require either that the code be public domain (unrestricteduse), or that Digium be granted a license to reuse the code at ourdiscretion (the disclaimer). Being that Digium wants to be able to sell a commercial version, I don't see how they could have been more accomodating then this. Digium can only put in their commercial version what they themselves have written, or what others have freely given them to use under the public domain. The only people that would have a problem with this are the one that believe so strongly in the GPL that it's the only license they will permit to be used for their contributions.. They won't be happy unless everyone else does things their way. They wouldn't be happy if asterisk was BSD or MIT licensed either. Chris ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
snacktime wrote: Being that Digium wants to be able to sell a commercial version, I don't see how they could have been more accomodating then this. Digium can They could just use the GPL as is, since they chose the license in the first place.. they clearly have no issues with it. They already have the rights to use the code granted by the GPL - that's not what the disclaimer is for. The disclaimer gives them the same rights as the owner so they can relicense the contributed code under a non-GPL license for commercial reasons. Not everyone is happy with that, clearly. TBH I'd rather digium had chosen something like BSD to start with and avoided all the GPL politics but the situation we have is the one we have. Tony ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/07/05 23:28 Jon Pounder said the following: There are people out there who wish to contribute, and not have their work lost on an individual project website since they do not choose to accept digium's terms to contribute to asterisk. This gives them an opportunity to do so, and have their work aggregated with everyone else in the same category, so it is one stop shopping for users. that makes a lot of sense, considering that many have voiced similar opinions here in the past. however i would urge the openpbx.org folk to not diverge too much from the main asterisk code base, so as to ensure a proper stream for it. too much divergence and we have two pieces of software competing for each other. -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/8/05, Tony Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snacktime wrote: Being that Digium wants to be able to sell a commercial version, I don't see how they could have been more accomodating then this. Digium canThey could just use the GPL as is, since they chose the license in the first place.. they clearly have no issues with it.They already have the rights to use the code granted by the GPL - that'snot what the disclaimer is for.The disclaimer gives them the same rights as the owner so they can relicense the contributed code under a non-GPL license for commercialreasons.Not everyone is happy with that, clearly. I understand, that's why I said 'Being that Digium wants to be able to sell a commercial version'. TBH I'd rather digium had chosen something like BSD to start with andavoided all the GPL politics but the situation we have is the one we have. Agreed. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:41:00PM +0100, Tony Hoyle wrote: TBH I'd rather digium had chosen something like BSD to start with and avoided all the GPL politics but the situation we have is the one we have. But then you wouldn't have to pay them if you wanted your own propritary fork. Not to mention that it prevents evil others to create a propritary fork: even a fork must have a GPL license[*] [*] Almost GPL: openssl and openh323's licenses is incompatible with the GPL, and hence the current modified GPL license will still have to be used. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/09/05 02:46 Rich Adamson said the following: I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces). asterisk could, but i doubt digium would commit this to the asterisk cvs due to it being non-disclaimed for their use. -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 10/09/05 02:46 Rich Adamson said the following: I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but if OpenPBX stays with GPL, it would appear that asterisk could use any piece developed under OpenPBX (unless someone there puts restrictions on individual pieces). if it's a fork of asterisk, it /has/ to be under the GPL. period. however, pieces from openpbx could make their way into asterisk but not into a closed source version of asterisk (ABE for example) without the consent of the authors of those pieces. -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Steve Kennedy wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:43:07PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0400, Mike M wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. What's the alternative? Open source? Cracking is unnecessary with open source. Search a bit about security by obscurity. Basically if the security of your system depends on a secret you can't easily change, it will get exposed sooner or later. So you should design it to withstand such leakage. E.g: change a password if it was exposed. As this was related to Mastercard/Visa, they can allow open source, however the software has to be certified to meet their security specs, which may be harder to accomplish for open source. It's not harder. It's just different. A number of things have similar requirements. The ISDN4Linux folk have certain versions of their software approved by the telecoms bodies in Europe. They need to tie down exactly what was approved, so any other versions emit a notice that says they are unapproved versions. They do this with a signature on the approved version. It seems to work out OK. Regards, Steve ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Steve Underwood wrote: Steve Kennedy wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:43:07PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0400, Mike M wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and post-crack countermeasures. What's the alternative? Open source? Cracking is unnecessary with open source. Search a bit about security by obscurity. Basically if the security of your system depends on a secret you can't easily change, it will get exposed sooner or later. So you should design it to withstand such leakage. E.g: change a password if it was exposed. As this was related to Mastercard/Visa, they can allow open source, however the software has to be certified to meet their security specs, which may be harder to accomplish for open source. It's not harder. It's just different. A number of things have similar requirements. The ISDN4Linux folk have certain versions of their software approved by the telecoms bodies in Europe. They need to tie down exactly what was approved, so any other versions emit a notice that says they are unapproved versions. They do this with a signature on the approved version. It seems to work out OK. Regards, Steve I think that the important thing to remember is that a good reverse engineer can take the object code from a rom and produce source files that are better commented than the original source ever was. I close my source because it's mine and it's none of your business but I don't get a false sense of security from doing that. There are people who specialize in taking gate array chips apart in a very careful manner in order to get the programmed logic patterns using a microscope. If I can buy/build a good enough logic analyzer I can get what I need without even powering down your product. So consider that if I can clone your electronic key device, disassembling the binaries for your closed source software is a minor obstacle. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Can they do this? Is this legal? ..o---o.. Brian Fertig Network/Systems Engineer IT Administrator Planet Telecom, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Meredith Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:26 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Doug -- Doug Meredith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 This email was scanned by: Mcafee GroupShield CONFIDENTIAL DISCLAMER All information provided in this email is considered confidential and proprietary of Planet Telecom, Inc. and Telecenter Inc. Use of this information by anyone other than the recipient or sender will be considered in breach of agreement. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:51:45AM -0400, Brian C. Fertig wrote: Can they do this? Is this legal? Google fork open source. -- Mike ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Have you ever read the GPL? -bill On 7-Oct-05, at 10:51 AM, Brian C. Fertig wrote: Can they do this? Is this legal? ..o---o.. Brian Fertig Network/Systems Engineer IT Administrator Planet Telecom, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Meredith Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:26 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Doug -- Doug Meredith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 This email was scanned by: Mcafee GroupShield CONFIDENTIAL DISCLAMER All information provided in this email is considered confidential and proprietary of Planet Telecom, Inc. and Telecenter Inc. Use of this information by anyone other than the recipient or sender will be considered in breach of agreement. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
There are people out there who wish to contribute, and not have their work lost on an individual project website since they do not choose to accept digium's terms to contribute to asterisk. This gives them an opportunity to do so, and have their work aggregated with everyone else in the same category, so it is one stop shopping for users. Open source is about choices, not restrictions, and this gives contributors more choice. As long as the two streams stay compatible (which they likely will) it should be better for everyone. Have you ever read the GPL? -bill On 7-Oct-05, at 10:51 AM, Brian C. Fertig wrote: Can they do this? Is this legal? ..o---o.. Brian Fertig Network/Systems Engineer IT Administrator Planet Telecom, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Meredith Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:26 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Doug -- Doug Meredith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 This email was scanned by: Mcafee GroupShield CONFIDENTIAL DISCLAMER All information provided in this email is considered confidential and proprietary of Planet Telecom, Inc. and Telecenter Inc. Use of this information by anyone other than the recipient or sender will be considered in breach of agreement. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Brian C. Fertig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Can they do this? Is this legal? Yes - anyone can register a domain name. -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Jon Pounder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are people out there who wish to contribute, and not have their work lost on an individual project website since they do not choose to accept digium's terms to contribute to asterisk. This gives them an opportunity to do so, and have their work aggregated with everyone else in the same category, so it is one stop shopping for users. Open source is about choices, not restrictions, and this gives contributors more choice. As long as the two streams stay compatible (which they likely will) it should be better for everyone. I think it's a great idea, and long overdue. -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
sigh.. meaning take the fork ..o---o.. Brian Fertig Network/Systems Engineer IT Administrator Planet Telecom, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Walsh Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:57 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Brian C. Fertig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Can they do this? Is this legal? Yes - anyone can register a domain name. -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 This email was scanned by: Mcafee GroupShield CONFIDENTIAL DISCLAMER All information provided in this email is considered confidential and proprietary of Planet Telecom, Inc. and Telecenter Inc. Use of this information by anyone other than the recipient or sender will be considered in breach of agreement. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Nice smartass remark... of course anyone can register a domain name. Is forking asterisk legal? Of course it is! Asterisk is under the GPL, which means that anyone can fork it at any time for any reason. Look at this in a positive light... many open source projects have forked, and the branches almost always end up feeding on one another. Look at the competition between various linux distributions. Look at the competition and colaboration between the various *BSD communities. They all give and take from one another, creating a better /family/ of products. Oh, and the idea that these guys are out to get the same benifits that Digium enjoys is insane. I'd imagine that while Digium may make some money from selling alternate licenses, they make most their money from hardware sales and support. IMO, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a fork. In fact, were I someone with some seroius coding skills and/or the resources to make it happen, I'd have forked the damned thing 2 years ago, and likely would have been able to migrate it over to a true OSS license (BSD) by now. I know that the idea of forking asterisk has been tossed around by a LOT of people for a long time now, I'm glad it finally happened. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 866.477.5638 Kevin Walsh wrote: Brian C. Fertig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Can they do this? Is this legal? Yes - anyone can register a domain name. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Friday 07 October 2005 11:28, Jon Pounder wrote: contributors more choice. As long as the two streams stay compatible (which they likely will) it should be better for everyone. Don't count on it, the rumblings in the IRC channel sound like it will be totally INcompatible except to pass calls between. -A. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
sigh.. meaning take the fork if you want a ford, buy a ford, if you want a gm buy a gm, they are both cars. if no one wanted a gmc, they would not be around much longer. No one is going to question your reasons for wanting one or the other, you are free to choose. There is room for both and if they are different enough on specific areas they both have room to exist in the market. if no one wants a gm, it won't exist as a company for very long will it ? Same principles apply here. Don't waste effort whining about things you can't change since no one is doing anything wrong. Focus on helping one or the other or both if you choose. What digium is doing they have legitimate reasons for, and so does this project, there is no need to get all upset about it, the licences already provide for this, and it is surprising it does not happen a lot more often for a lot less valid reasons. ..o---o.. Brian Fertig Network/Systems Engineer IT Administrator Planet Telecom, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Walsh Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:57 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Brian C. Fertig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Can they do this? Is this legal? Yes - anyone can register a domain name. -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 This email was scanned by: Mcafee GroupShield CONFIDENTIAL DISCLAMER All information provided in this email is considered confidential and proprietary of Planet Telecom, Inc. and Telecenter Inc. Use of this information by anyone other than the recipient or sender will be considered in breach of agreement. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Friday 07 October 2005 11:28, Jon Pounder wrote: contributors more choice. As long as the two streams stay compatible (which they likely will) it should be better for everyone. Don't count on it, the rumblings in the IRC channel sound like it will be totally INcompatible except to pass calls between. and if there is a big enough community that wants to stay compatible, there is nothing to stop even more forks. Who would have thought there would be support for so many linux distributions ? phones are just as common as linux servers so wouldn't you think there would be the resources out there to support at least several flavours of an open source pbx ? -A. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Personally, I believe it's a good thing. It gives more choice. Look at other products: IPCop (Linux based firewall) is a fork derived from Smoothwall. They made such a nice job that Smoothwall were playing catch-up with IPCop for quite some time. I don't know the current situation. GPL allows forking and forking is a form of evolution. YC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Pounder Sent: 07 October 2005 17:20 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org On Friday 07 October 2005 11:28, Jon Pounder wrote: contributors more choice. As long as the two streams stay compatible (which they likely will) it should be better for everyone. Don't count on it, the rumblings in the IRC channel sound like it will be totally INcompatible except to pass calls between. and if there is a big enough community that wants to stay compatible, there is nothing to stop even more forks. Who would have thought there would be support for so many linux distributions ? phones are just as common as linux servers so wouldn't you think there would be the resources out there to support at least several flavours of an open source pbx ? -A. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
I hope this does take off as I am starting to feel a bit uncomfortable with the Digium model and where it is headed. Mark Spencer and Digium deserve full credit for creating this beautiful thing called Asterisk. They did it knowing full well these sorts of possibilities existed in the future. Maybe it's time to let Asterisk branch out into the world and find it's (other)way. -Original Message- From: Jon Pounder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:28 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org There are people out there who wish to contribute, and not have their work lost on an individual project website since they do not choose to accept digium's terms to contribute to asterisk. This gives them an opportunity to do so, and have their work aggregated with everyone else in the same category, so it is one stop shopping for users. Open source is about choices, not restrictions, and this gives contributors more choice. As long as the two streams stay compatible (which they likely will) it should be better for everyone. Have you ever read the GPL? -bill On 7-Oct-05, at 10:51 AM, Brian C. Fertig wrote: Can they do this? Is this legal? ..o---o.. Brian Fertig Network/Systems Engineer IT Administrator Planet Telecom, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Meredith Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:26 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Doug -- Doug Meredith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 This email was scanned by: Mcafee GroupShield CONFIDENTIAL DISCLAMER All information provided in this email is considered confidential and proprietary of Planet Telecom, Inc. and Telecenter Inc. Use of this information by anyone other than the recipient or sender will be considered in breach of agreement. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
IMO, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a fork. In fact, were I someone with some seroius coding skills and/or the resources to make it happen, I'd have forked the damned thing 2 years ago, and likely would have been able to migrate it over to a true OSS license (BSD) by now. Tss, tss. You can't change the GPL license to anything that is 'stricter' or 'freer'. Cheers, Jean-Michel. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
How can they be a great loss if their ideas and work never made it into the codebase? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:04 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further info. The domain is registered to Marc Olivier Chouinard. He has posted in the dev list. Yes, it looks like the main people behind it are bkw, anthm and moc. They will be a great loss to the Asterisk community if they go off and only do their own thing. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tony.mountifield.org ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: IMO, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a fork. In fact, were I someone with some seroius coding skills and/or the resources to make it happen, I'd have forked the damned thing 2 years ago, and likely would have been able to migrate it over to a true OSS license (BSD) by now. Tss, tss. You can't change the GPL license to anything that is 'stricter' or 'freer'. Cheers, Jean-Michel. Licence changes can be made... look at Cistron Radius. They started with Livingston's code, which was under the BSD license. Once their code had been completely rewritten, they did an audit and found that they were no longer using the original code base and made the decision to move to the GPL. Why they wanted to move to a more restrictive license is beyond me (and this thread), but they did it. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 866.477.5638 http://www.psknet.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Friday 07 October 2005 15:24, Troy Settle wrote: Licence changes can be made... look at Cistron Radius. They started with Livingston's code, which was under the BSD license. Once their code had been completely rewritten, they did an audit and found that they were no longer using the original code base and made the decision to move to the GPL. Why they wanted to move to a more restrictive license is beyond me (and this thread), but they did it. You can fork any piece of BSD-licensed code and make it GPL, but not the reverse. -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
Doug Meredith wrote: gincantalupo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why a fork??? I don't know any of the people involved, or what their motivation might be, but I will make a guess: Digium's model tends to stifle innovation. Look at eclipse.org for a much better model. Eclipse is truly open source. IBM's commercial products are built on top of Eclipse. No parallel licensing scheme. No restrictions on what can go into the project as a result of trying to maintain the dual licensing. The thing to remember is that the digium folks are not going to spend months slaving over a new hardware product and then put the device driver source under a closed license only. The gpl code can be used in an asterisk fork like openpbx or in something written from scratch like MyStinkingPBX as long as the license is honored. That helps digium hardware sales. Dual licensing is not such a bad thing. Suppose I want to build a proprietary black box product that uses the acme XYZ99 chipset. Do you think the author of a good GPL'ed XYZ99 device driver would refuse to consider a good legal dual-license opportunity? I doubt it. Also consider that there are situations where 100% open source is never allowed. Check out visa/mastercard processor certification for a good example. Digium dual licensing availability means I could actually stand a chance of using asterisk as the basis for systems used by military and law enforcement in applications that require extremely high security. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On 7-Oct-05, at 9:45 PM, Paul wrote: The thing to remember is that the digium folks are not going to spend months slaving over a new hardware product and then put the device driver source under a closed license only. The gpl code can be used in an asterisk fork like openpbx or in something written from scratch like MyStinkingPBX as long as the license is honored. That helps digium hardware sales. Dual licensing is not such a bad thing. Suppose I want to build a proprietary black box product that uses the acme XYZ99 chipset. Do you think the author of a good GPL'ed XYZ99 device driver would refuse to consider a good legal dual-license opportunity? I doubt it. Also consider that there are situations where 100% open source is never allowed. Check out visa/mastercard processor certification for a good example. Digium dual licensing availability means I could actually stand a chance of using asterisk as the basis for systems used by military and law enforcement in applications that require extremely high security. One problem with the dual license is only Digium employee's can check code into the main code base. Lawyers could be all over product like ABE if they were not vigilant on people signing the license document. In the end this does hamper third party hardware support (ie device drivers) being integrated into the main Asterisk code tree. To do this would require the new hardware manufacturer not only to release their driver under GPL, but to also give the code away to Digium. Something many of them may be unwilling to do. The other option is for the new hardware company to purchase some other type of Asterisk license from Digium. The question is: Long term is Digium a hardware or a software company? Law enforcement and many high security systems use open source in many cases. Look at the security products built from OpenBSD for example. It's the security vs obscurity debate. -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:45:53PM -0400, Paul wrote: Doug Meredith wrote: Also consider that there are situations where 100% open source is never allowed. Check out visa/mastercard processor certification for a good example. Digium dual licensing availability means I could actually stand a chance of using asterisk as the basis for systems used by military and law enforcement in applications that require extremely high security. There is a popular vendor of closed source products whose security has been compromised often. The security of OpenSSH is well established. Reading this list iwe learn that the open source version of Asterisk is currently being used by military personnel. Asterisk offers ways for users to implement eavesdropping applications which undermines the goal of attaining extremely high security. Open source is for sharing if that's feasible and closed source is not. Dual licensing is for both. -- Mike ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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