On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dorn Hetzel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > > You can modify and/or link to GPLed code with commercial code and get > > away with it as long as you don't distribute the stuff. That's the > > story with G.729, with nVidia drivers etc etc etc
The g.729 license for Asterisk is special - there is an exception in the asterisk license I think. The nVidia driver is considered to not be a derived work by the powers that be (Linus et al) since they specifically allow binary modules using only the published api. > I suppose it's even possible to distribute your commercial code in source > form and ask your customer to acquire their own copy of * to link it with. > (is that actually true?) Probably not, but you have to ask a lawyer. Your code may or may not form a derived work in the legal sense. An analogy is that you can not distribute an alternate ending to a book by writing the last two chapters and distributing them. That would form a derived work. For software the lines are blurry and untested. Peter _______________________________________________ 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
