On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ------------------------------------------------ > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:56:21 +0000 (UTC) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Mountifield) > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Advice on OS Choice > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Kevin Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not up to them to decide. Under the GPL, if you distribute > > modified code then you must publish your enhancements for the benefit > > of all. The team responsible for the core code can decide whether the > > contributed code is "appropriate for distribution." > > That's not how I understand the GPL. My understanding is that the GPL > gives me the freedom to take some GPLed code, modify it, and distribute > the modified code to whomsoever I choose, for free or for a payment. I > must also make the source code freely available (on request, if I prefer) > to anyone to whom I distribute binaries. > > It does *not* compel me to distribute my version to everyone, but I also > cannot prevent those people I give or sell it to from passing it on in > binary and/or source form to anyone else if they choose to. > > Cheers > Tony > -- > Tony Mountifield > Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.softins.co.uk > Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tony.mountifield.org > > I think you are both right. As I understand it, it all depends on what is modified.
Say in the case of Asterisk you modified and improved the conferencing capability, or voicemail, those modifications are made to existing features and are expected to go back into the GPL source. Final judgement is made by the GPL core distribution team to incorporate or not. Should you take and build a capability like Billing or another conferencing capability, or call transfer to your liking on top of the asterisk system. This in not required to be reviewed or submitted to become open source. It is your own software capability to do with what you want. Keep it proprietary or open source it. Your choice. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks, Mike Meyer _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
