[Freeswitch-users] Posibility to build a module for chan dongle

[Rob Hutton]

Sorry if this is coming across sarcastic, I honestly don't mean it to be, licensing is just not as cut and dry as it is or it isn't.  There are 1000 conflicting legal opinions about this stuff, which is why the licenses keep getting revised.

- MPL specifically allows other licenses (starting at v1.1)
- Includion in MPL projects is specifically allowed in all versions of GPL3 and most GPL2 code (as discussed here http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html) as you are allowed to derive works under whatever license you want as long as the GPLd code and any contributions you make to them are made available in source form and the license is included.

...so it doesn't appear to me to be a licensing issue with most current code, at least.  Certainly there have been issues in the past 

If it has been clarified on the list many times that GPLd code can't be included in FreeSWITCH, and it's not a licensing issue, then who would have made the decision not to allow it?


Thanks,
Rob

On Tuesday 03 January 2012 12:03:52 Steve Underwood wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 12:58 AM, Rob Hutton wrote:
> Can you explain how.....
> >
> > From Wikipedia:
> >
> > The MPL is GPL-incompatible because the GPL module cannot be legally 
> > linked with an MPL module. However, versions of the MPL such as MPL 
> > 1.1 have a provision that allows part of a program to offer the GNU 
> > GPL as an alternative choice, thereby allowing part of the program to 
> > have a GPL-compatible license.
> >
> .... leads you to the following conclusion?
> >
> > That doesn't mean that the project can't accept code, it means that 
> > that the project managers don't want to, for whatever reason, and that 
> > is completely up to them. But sending someone off with the 
> > misconception that it is not allowed by license is just going to lead 
> > to future problems for someone.
> >
> >
> Steve
> 
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