Oh so you are going to resign of using any direct freeswitch interaction ? FreeSWITCH is MPL and 100% incompatible with AGPL.
Am 03.03.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Martin Steinmann: > In early 2004 when we first created SIPfoundry cloud computing and Software > as a Service (SaaS) were not yet ubiquitous trends. Software was sold and > distributed and then run by the enterprise in a data center or on a computer. > From the very beginning we insisted on a reciprocal open source license for > sipXecs, but also wanted to make sure we picked a widely used license with no > additional strings attached. The L-GPL license has served us well over the > years and it fulfilled all the criteria to conduct a successful and > attractive open source project. However, the IT landscape has changed > significantly over the last couple of years and in a world of cloud services, > hosting, and SaaS, the L-GPL license no longer provides the necessary > protections. The main reason is that the requirements imposed by the L-GPL > on end users only apply if the software is actually distributed. If it is > accessed over a network, then distribution does not occur and therefore the > reciprocity requirement no longer applies. This means that the sipXecs > project can no longer enforce changes made by others to flow back to the > project. We believe that this increasingly threatens the project as it > creates an unfair imbalance between those who participate and contribute back > and those who just profit from the work of others. > > > > To remedy this situation the Free Software Foundation (FSF) created a new > license called AGPL in 2007 that was adopted by the Open Source Initiative > (OSI) in March 2008. Here is what the FSF has to say about this: > > > > “The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for > software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure > cooperation with the community in the case of network server software. > > Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the > freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you > wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you > can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that > you know you can do these things. > > Developers that use our General Public Licenses protect your rights with two > steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License > which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the > software. > > A secondary benefit of defending all users' freedom is that improvements made > in alternate versions of the program, if they receive widespread use, become > available for other developers to incorporate. Many developers of free > software are heartened and encouraged by the resulting cooperation. However, > in the case of software used on network servers, this result may fail to come > about. The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and > letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source > code to the public. > > The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure > that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the > community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source > code of the modified version running there to the users of that server. > Therefore, public use of a modified version, on a publicly accessible server, > gives the public access to the source code of the modified version.” > > How exactly will this work? > > 1. We are not changing the license of any works that were contributed by > others. In particular, all files marked with copyrights from Pingtel, > Nortel, and Avaya remain under their stated license, which is L-GPL > > 2. All contributions made by eZuce and for which eZuce holds copyright are > licensed or re-licensed under AGPL version 3 or newer. The licenses L-GPL, > GPL and AGPL version 3 are compatible licenses that allow linking and > combining code. > > 3. The resulting license for the derivative work then becomes AGPL and > SIPfoundry will license sipXecs under its copyright for the derivative work > under the AGPL v3 license. > > What does this mean for you? > > > > 1. If you are a user of sipXecs and use it without modifying the source, > this change likely will mean that more contributions will flow back to the > sipXecs project and you will see an accelerated roadmap. The AGPL license > does not impose any additional restrictions on how you can use sipXecs. > > 2. If you are a developer and provide occasional patches, we will continue > to accept these patches under the L-GPL license. > > 3. If you are a company making changes to sipXecs or enhancing it for your > purposes and you have not given back all of these changes yet because you are > offering a hosted service, this change will mean that you have to comply with > the terms of the AGPL license going forward > > > > Why are we doing this now? > > > > AGPL is finding more and more adoption in parallel with the adoption and > raise of cloud services. The FSF recommends the AGPL license to be the > preferred open source license for software that will run over a network, > which is increasingly the case for sipXecs. With SIPfoundry no longer being > sponsored by a large company we depend on fair and equitable collaboration > between all the interested parties. The change to AGPL re-establishes this > balance and we not only hope you would understand this, but embrace this > change enthusiastically as a statement of strengths of the sipXecs project > and our intent and commitment to the open source model. > > > > If you have any specific questions concerning this change, now would be a > good time to speak up. > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ Michal Bielicki Geschäftsführer / CEO Seventh Signal Ltd. & Co. KG Weigandufer 45, Büro 115, D-12059 Berlin Voice: +49 30 60988730 Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRA 44413 B Ust.-ID: DE266981999 Geschäftsführer: Michal Bielicki Persönlich Haftende Gesellschafterin: Seventh Signal Ltd, 69 Great Hampton St. Birmingham, B18 6EW, GB, Company Nr.: 06889439 WWW.: http://www.seventhsignal.de
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