Fact: Digum is a company. Fact: Companies make money to survive. Fact: If Digum was non-profit this thread would not exist. Fact: Digum can show its and prove its good intentions by signing off the copyright to asterisk to public domain with the code being gpl.
On 25 Jul 2004 at 9:07, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Andy Powell wrote: > > > Before this thread turns into a complete yawnfest (oops too late) can I ask if > > it's safe to make the assumption that everything in the CVS source tree is GPL? IE > > if I approached Digium/Mark with some code would he refuse to add it to CVS if it > > was not GPL (aside from the disclaimer issue)? Is the fact that it is in CVS > > indicative of it's licencing being GPL? > > He would refuse to merge it not because it wasn't distributed under the > GPL, but because the copyright holder of that code had not signed over > copyright of the code to Digium. If the copyright holder of that code is > willing to sign over to Digium, then any license(s) that code may have > been previously distributed under are completely irrelevant. > > You must change your thinking slightly: code cannot "be" GPL. Code can > be distributed under the terms of the GPL, but the code itself is still > a copyrighted work (unless it has been placed into the public domain). > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
