Re:GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP
by zbowling on Saturday May 14, 2011 @05:02PM
(#2548532)
Asterisk not open enough for GNU?
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Re:GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP
by viraptor on Saturday May 14, 2011 @05:38PM
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They might take issue with a couple of things like https://issues.asterisk.org/view_license_agreement.php , "commercial edition" based on the open one, deals between asterisk and skype which makes closed-source skype channels available for asterisk (who knows how would it affect skype-competitor plugins) and many others. While nothing critical, I think GNU people might not entirely like it.
Re:GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP
by zbowling on Saturday May 14, 2011 @06:48PM
(#2548762)
The fsf/GNU isn't anti-commercial, just anti-proprietary. Free speech vs. Free beer. I doubt Asterisk dealings with Skype for special access for it's customers that pay a preium service fee really bothers them, except maybe helping Skype propagate it's proprietary tech indirectly.
What asterisk does is no different than MySQL and QT.
Re:GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP
by kl4m on Saturday May 14, 2011 @09:28PM
(#2549056)
Here is a debate where RMS talks about the dual license issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVayqOHbZw
He basically says it's acceptable.