<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 20:30, Nathan Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan@nightsys.net">nathan@nightsys.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hey Guys,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Was
just reading some stuff out of pure chance, and saw something that
sounds borderline contradictory, someone mind giving a second opinion?
See below:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://www.asterisk.org/developers/bug-guidelines" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.asterisk.org/developers/bug-guidelines</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
reason for the contributor license agreement has been discussed many
times, but the general gist is that your contribution must not
introduce any encumbrance to the Asterisk code base, but Digium DOES
NOT OWN your contribution, </font><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">and they cannot take released Asterisk out of GPL.</font></b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
Relax; it's a very fair and reasonable license, and does not remove
your rights or threaten the open source nature of the project. See the
mailing list archives for long explanations of why everyone who
contributes agrees that it's a fair and sane thing to do. You only need
to sign the contributor license agreement once; it applies to all stuff
that you send in via the issue tracker.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#595959"><a href="https://issues.asterisk.org/view_license_agreement.php" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">https://issues.asterisk.org/view_license_agreement.php</font></a></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><b><br></b></span></font></div><div>
<span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards,</font></span></div><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></div><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Nathan.</font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br>This section of that second license is just as bad if not worse imho.<br><br>You hereby grant Digium a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicenseable and transferable
license under any patent You own or control, now or in the future, to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, or import
Submissions or any modifications thereof, including without limitation any combinations of the Submissions or modifications
thereof with software, technology or services of Digium or its affiliates. <br clear="all"><br>Why should i have to grant them a license to my better mouse trap patent if i'm offering a patch to them?<br>-- <br>Life has been proven to have a 100% mortality rate.<br>