asterisk users - Nov 2004 - SysMaster and GPL Violation (lets think before we jump)

Hey All,

Isn't it possible that part of the commercial licenses that is offered is
that you (the buyer) are not required to advertise, disclose, or even admit
that your products offerings are based on an open source project?

What other reason would one have for buying a commercial license for an OS
piece of software?

~c

> Hey All,
> 
> Isn't it possible that part of the commercial licenses that is offered
is
> that you (the buyer) are not required to advertise, disclose, or even admit
> that your products offerings are based on an open source project?
> 
> What other reason would one have for buying a commercial license for an OS
> piece of software?
In this industry?  Lots.  Let's start with linking it to a non-GPL-
compatible codec, move on to linking it with a propietary configuration
and management system, and end up at creatively finding a reason to fund
the development of an open source software project while simultaneously
obtaining a licensing model for your company that doesn't make lawyers 
cringe.

That's three good reasons that have nothing to do with it, and I didn't
even think much about it.  There are plenty of reasonable reasons that one
might do it.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance
[and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on
e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
apples.

Only if we can move the top-post discussion there too

Gary wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Might I propose a new mailing list ??
> 
> "Asterisk-bitch"
> 
> Thus discussions such as the one with this topic could be moved to it
> rather than clutter up an already very busy list.
> 
> 
> All those in favour ?
> 
Only if we can move the top-post discussion there too

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:30:23 -0800, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>Only if we can move the top-post discussion there too
>
>Gary wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Might I propose a new mailing list ??
>> 
>> "Asterisk-bitch"
>> 
>> Thus discussions such as the one with this topic could be moved to it
>> rather than clutter up an already very busy list.
>> 
>> 
>> All those in favour ?
>> 
>
>Only if we can move the top-post discussion there too
Sure, 
any of those types of debate.

In fact, i just wished people would NOT use the list for debates !!
.