On Monday 26 November 2007 14:52, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > > Tilghman Lesher wrote: > >> On Monday 26 November 2007 11:14, shadowym wrote: > >>> On Monday, November 26, 2007 at 4:34 AM, Steven wrote: > >>>> I also believe that supporting asterisk via a Digium purchase is the > >>>> more "right" thing to do. > >>> > >>> How is buying Digium the right thing to do? It is not like they are > >>> a true open source company. More like proprietary that likes to use > >>> the open source community to test. > >> > >> I beg your pardon. If you're not just trolling, I'd like to hear just > >> how you think Digium could be more of an open source company than they > >> are now. Digium gives away its flagship platform, Asterisk, for free > >> (under the GPL). I don't know how you could possibly get any more open > >> source than that and still stay in business. > > > > I suspect the issue is, as always, the fact that 1) 3rd party GPL code > > (like for example MySQL libraries, or any other GPL software) cannot be > > added or linked to the Asterisk source tree and 2) all code added to the > > Asterisk source tree must be disclaimed. > > > > The ONLY reason for these two items is that Digium has a dual license a > > GPL license and a closed source license. > > > > Personally, I have no problem with this at all. But some people seem to > > think this makes Digium a closed source company. > > Sorry to reply to myself, but I wanted to clarify something. When you > "disclaim" code sent to Digium you have a choice in how you disclaim it. > > The first option is to just give Digium the copyright to your code. > This is good for short or fairly obvious patches where you don't really > care to keep the copyright to the code.
This was the disclaimer, but it is no longer an option. > The second option, and the option that I choose, is to give Digium a > royalty free LICENSE to use your code in anyway they see fit, but you > keep the copyright. This means that even though your code is in > Asterisk, you are free to contribute that code to any project you want. At this point, all contributions are licensed and the original contributor retains copyright. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
