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Digium launches AsteriskNOW

Posted Jan 3, 2007 16:56 UTC (Wed) by achitnis (guest, #20)
Parent article: Digium launches AsteriskNOW

Hmmm. I always assumed that Digium "gets it".

Either I was wrong, or they have some over-ambitious, clueless lawyers at work there, who are going to damage Digium's reputation beyond repair.

Nothing that an apology and a quick reword can't fix, but the longer they wait, the more permanent the damage will be.

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assume incompetence, not evil

Posted Jan 3, 2007 18:10 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

This is the kind of thing that the FSF has cleaned up in the past by having Eben Moglen give the offender a call and quietly, politely explain the obligations the GPL imposes.

So, these folks should be asked, politely, by the copyright holders of Asterix, Linux, or whoever, to correct their restrictions document to conform to the GPL. There is no issue unless they do not comply.

assume incompetence, not evil

Posted Jan 4, 2007 8:34 UTC (Thu) by achitnis (guest, #20) [Link]

Ah, digium has fixed the issue. Good. They still "get it".