Curious as to why there is any problem in general, I went to google and started hunting the license information. I found a couple of resources they all say basically the same thing, all are on digiums site.
I cant understand why there is any sort of problem. There are 2 licenses they sell, one is GPL and free. This is what most people use. For people who want to be able to sell asterisk or incorporate it into their existing product line they can buy a commercial license that removes the parasitic nature of the GPL (ie any code you create will be assimilated into the GPL as well). The GPL does not prohibit forking, so long as the forked code is GPLed. Course then you have to name it something else, maybe instead of * you use the other telephone special key # and name it hash to go with whatever people that are complaining about this are smoking. http://www.digium.com/downloads/licensing.pdf (basically the same but not as formal as the next link). http://www.digium.com/handbook-draft.pdf 1.3 Licensing Asterisk is generally distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, or GPL. This license permits you to freely distribute Asterisk in source and binary forms, with or without modifications, provided that when it is distributed to anyone at all, it is distributed with source code (including any changes you make) and without any further restrictions on their ability to use or distribute the code. For more information, refer to the GNU General Public License, included as an appendix. The GPL does not extend to the hardware or software that Asterisk talks to. For example, if you are using a SIP soft phone as a client for Asterisk, it is not a requirement that that program also be distributed under GPL. Additionally, AGI applications, which are simply launched by Asterisk and communicate For those applications in which the GNU GPL is not appropriate (because of some sort of proprietary linkage, for example), Digium is the solely capable of licensing Asterisk outside of the terms of the GPL at their discression. For more information on licensing Asterisk outside of GPL, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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