Brian West wrote:
On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Alex Guan wrote:
Two more basic questions:
1. Licensing. A main problem I saw with Asterisk is it's GPL/Digium dual licensing scheme. I don't see any serious business development could be possible under this license. I think Mark and his company have made a big mistake on this subject. (And their business model as well.) What's the main rationale for you/other founders to choose MPL? Do you favour/oppose to commercial development using freeswitch in their proprietary systems?
The MPL allows you to commercialize the code. But Anthony can elaborate on this subject more than I can. I don't want to speak on his behalf.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is actively working to reduce the number of licenses. For instance we have deprecated the Jabber Open Source License (which was quite similar to MPL, but more friendly to companies since it reduced some risk regarding warranties etc.): http://www.opensource.org/licenses/jabberpl.php But perhaps a BSD-style license is a little too loose for FreeSWITCH? Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml