On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:47:12PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: > On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: > > > With VICIDIAL you can do inbound/outbound/blended call handling and > > > there are all sorts of features for call handling and agent functions. > > > The latest VICIDIAL release is GPLv2, but for future major releases we > > > are moving to the AGPLv2. VICIDIAL is free as in cost and speech. > > > > I noticed you had gone Affero. Could you expand on that decision, if > > you have a moment? What's the difference between the two licenses, did > > you consider GPLv3, and what's your situation on contributed code? > > We finally decided we would be going to AGPLv2 for our next major > release due to a few hosted service providers out there that were > altering the code to VICIDIAL, offering "VICIDIAL hosted" and not > contributing their changes back to the project. And under the GPL they > have every right to do this as long as the code is not installed on a > client-owned machine or transferred to a client. This is known as the > GPL-ASP-loophole. AGPL just closes that loophole and says that any > customer of a hosted service like that has the right to the source > code too.
Ok; that's what I *thought* Affero's change was, but it's kind of hard to tell from the actual license... > We have not done enough research on GPLv3 yet to want to move to it, > and a lot of other GPLv2 projects are staying put as well for the time > being. I'm not really fond of it myself. > As for contributed code, we require a statement of "this is my code > and the project can use it and redistribute it" from the author. > Nothing very detailed at the moment because there are not many code > contributors and the project is entirely GPL-based and is not > dual-licensed. Yeah; I was just worried about someone getting pissy about your relicensing from GPL to AGPL. Not that I expect it or anything... :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- 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
