Doug Meredith wrote:
gincantalupo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
why a fork???
I don't know any of the people involved, or what their motivation
might be, but I will make a guess:
Digium's model tends to stifle innovation. Look at eclipse.org for a
much better model. Eclipse is truly open source. IBM's commercial
products are built on top of Eclipse. No parallel licensing scheme.
No restrictions on what can go into the project as a result of trying
to maintain the dual licensing.
The thing to remember is that the digium folks are not going to spend
months slaving over a new hardware product and then put the device
driver source under a closed license only. The gpl code can be used in
an asterisk fork like openpbx or in something written from scratch like
MyStinkingPBX as long as the license is honored. That helps digium
hardware sales.
Dual licensing is not such a bad thing. Suppose I want to build a
proprietary black box product that uses the acme XYZ99 chipset. Do you
think the author of a good GPL'ed XYZ99 device driver would refuse to
consider a good legal dual-license opportunity? I doubt it.
Also consider that there are situations where 100% open source is never
allowed. Check out visa/mastercard processor certification for a good
example. Digium dual licensing availability means I could actually stand
a chance of using asterisk as the basis for systems used by military and
law enforcement in applications that require extremely high security.
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