On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:13 -0400, Picher, Michael wrote: > Wasn't some of that work done before Avaya? > > And how can something, under the licensing, be contributed and yanked > back (not being an expert of the licensing, I don't know).
Let's not go down the rathole in which we pretend to be lawyers... it's not productive. Very simply though: All of that functionality was contributed by Avaya (or Nortel, which is the same thing, since Avaya bought all of Nortels rights when they bought our division), so we have not removed any contribution made by anyone outside (that would, at the very least have been very poor form). While it might technically be legal for Avaya to do that, I don't think anyone here would argue in favor of it, and personally I'd lie down in front of the bulldozer over that if it did happen. Nothing in the project license requires the project to actually incorporate any contribution - the license requires that if someone changes the code they must contribute the change back, not that the project use that change. As Al said, this change was the subject of a long and difficult debate inside Avaya (those of us arguing that it should not be pulled lost, obviously). It has been agreed that in the future we should only make these decisions in advance - if we start it in open source, then it should stay there, and if we think we're going to keep a feature exclusive to the commercial version then it should not ever be in the open source. Back to my vacation... _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
