I'd probably be a little pissed if I were Steve Underwood if somebody pocketed over 10k $USD for taking credit for a product that my free library did the bulk of the work for.
I don;t think i'd feel that the entire bounty should be mine - after all there would of been nothing stopping me from doing it myself... but credit should be given where credit is due. Even if its just something as a sign of appreciation. Given that spandsp is GPL'd Steve obviously never intended to make a ton of money off of it... but I;m sure he'd love to receive something for his work, or use some of that money to further develop spandsp. That being said... i;m also quite pleased to see T.38 support being worked on for Asterisk... its a pretty important area to further develop IMHO. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Steve Totaro < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Steve Totaro < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> VinÃcius Fontes wrote: >>> > When people release software under the GPL license, like Steve >>> Underwood did with libunicall, spandsp and so on, they were supposed to know >>> that other people has the right to use their code. >>> > >>> The problem is that almost any licence term which tries to limit the >>> obnoxious behaviour of other people has too many unpleasant side >>> effects. GPL 2.0 is the best compromise I've found, so that is what I >>> used for everything unless recently. To make my stuff licence compatible >>> with FreeSwitch I recently relicenced most of my work as LGPL 2.1. This >>> is having undesirable consequences, though. Its really a tough issue, >>> and GPL 2.0 showed immense foresight in just accepting the non-existence >>> of perfect solutions. GPL 3 seems to have forgotten the lesson somewhat. >>> >>> Most of the time I just want to give up producing anything at all. >>> >>> Steve >>> >> >> So are you angry that he may gain monetarily from your your work, or is it >> hurt pride that he is basically taking credit for it? >> >> The answer to that should guide you in how you release your work in the >> future. >> >> Thanks, >> Steve Totaro >> >> > I also want to add that if someone asked me to name the top five names that > came to mind when thinking of Asterisk, Jim Dixon, Mark Spencer, Steve > Underwood, Nicolas Gudino, and I will leave off the fifth as to not leave > anybody out ;) > > Thanks, > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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