asterisk users - Jan 2004 - License questioni supose ??

I have some strange question bout the asterisk (gpl license ...) but i'm not
an experienced linux user ...
 
What happens if for example a big company buys digium , do we have a garantuee
that asterisk stays opensource ???
 
Kind regards 
 
Michael Devenijn
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:23:52PM +0100, Michael Devenijn
wrote:
> I have some strange question bout the asterisk (gpl license ...) but
i'm not an experienced linux user ...
>  
> What happens if for example a big company buys digium , do we have a
garantuee that asterisk stays opensource ???
>  
Until the last released version, yes. Digium owns the Copyright : they
can decide whenever they want that their next release will have any
other kind of licence (open or not).

But what's released under the GPL stays so. Anyone can continue using
it, or even re-release it, provided that they still comply to the
GPL terms. Nobody, even Digium, can revoke the GPL licence for GPL-ed
software.

-- 
Nicolas Bougues
Axialys Interactive