On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:12 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > ----- Joe Shmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You say its not your code. But yet, why would you > > actually admit to one of your own leaking it. Well > > some research has been done one the code.. here's what > > we found.. > > Please demonstrate where anyone from Digium has 'admitted to one of our own > leaking it'. >
I think that was infered, since it appears to be internal code. If that was not the case then it appears that someone broke in to digium servers and obtained it. Wonder if they got the credit card lists of people that bought codecs and that is the next thing that will be posted. Since the code does appear to be very much identical to code that was denied to exist in the first place, but links were posted that makes it appear identical in many ways. Kinda makes one wonder what the real story is. > > CVS had only LF endings. The module code was > > identical to: > > http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/codecs/codec_g723_1.c?rev=5869&view=markup > > That is all correct information. The codec_g723_1.c file is the same as the > one that was in Asterisk 1.2. The codec_g729.c file is not the same as any > version Digium has ever maintained. > Hmm.. I thought that it was said that digium never had a g.723.1 implementation. Now its confirmed that it is the same only after someone dug it up. Kinda makes someone wonder what the real story is here. > > Also if you want to know if Digium fully complies the > > the GPL no. They dont. Digium has added a paragraph > > of text under the symbol ASTERISK_GPL_KEY in > > include/asterisk/module.h which every Asterisk module > > must return when a function *key() is called by the > > module loader. > > Which of course is completely unrelated, has been hashed over multiple times > on this list, and is a moot point anyway because any user of Asterisk is free > to remove that code if they wish (unlike the Lexmark case that seems to the > basis for this argument, where the owner of the device was NOT free to remove > the restricition). > While unrelated to the codecs, it is not unrelated to using Asterisk as part of your business since, while you are free to remove the GPL offending bits, that still requires that you give up part of your GPL rights as opposed to having them. I think that is part of the claim here. And with the loader.c specifically it requires that you not only remove that on your server but everyone elses as well, for all of the GPL to be honoured. The GPL does not state that you have the right to remove code on other peoples machines, so this legally invalid tactic to take away GPL rights is questionable at best. And 'any user of asterisk' is not a correct term. Any developer that happens to also use asterisk can do that, however simple users cannot. Not everyone is a user. The fact that this code was specifically written to ensure that all GPL rights are not allowed by default is one issue that I see, and if you are basing your business around asterisk and want to rely on the GPL as part of your business model, when infact its not really there makes it less than a moot point on a business list. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.trxtel.com the VoIP provider that pays you!
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