On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:01:38PM -0500, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
That fact is not the problem. It the fact that there is no FORK of Asterisk that Digium secretly maintains. This is how rumors get started.
If memory serves, you were the one who started that rumour.
I remember you claiming publicly that (1) you had a private
fork and (2) you had licenced Asterisk outside of the GPL
from Digium and had the right to distribute a proprietary
version if you chose.
I seem to recall your http://www.gnutel.com publicly discussing a fork of Asterisk.
And I quote: "It is an explicit design goal of the GNUTel Software to be as portable as possible to run on as great a variety of systems as possible. To help with this, one of the major initial points of divergence between GNUTel and Asterisk is the build process. We support GNU Autoconf, Automake and LibTool." and elsewhere, "Since at this stage, from a configuration and deployment standpoint, GNUTel has not diverged very much from the Asterisk PBX, their documentation is quite useful."
So who's forking what? (I have a full mirror to backup these statements)
I fully and totally support Digium every way I possibly can, because without Asterisk my company would not exist. This support comes in developmental and technical support of Asterisk along with monetary support as necessary.
I have one shared object module that quite a few people have expressed interest in, yes, but this is is far from a fork of Asterisk. This is absolutely nothing different than chan_dialogic.so or even codec_g729b.so. If you want it, you can pay for it. If not, write your own, you have the damn code.
While it is undoubtedly true that Digium does not secretly
maintain a fork, your company, NuFone is closely associated
on a business level with Digium, and you are as far as I
know the only person outside of Digium with commit privileges
to the source tree... 2+2 == ?
How about James Golovich aka citats? (sorry James) Plus, I have written two channel drivers for Asterisk. Mark graciously offered CVS commit to me and I have only used those privileges when asked or to update code I have contributed.
Jeremy McNamara
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