asterisk

[Caio Begotti]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 00:33, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> how did debian overcome the NetBSD 4 clause code within asterisk that is
> incompatible with the GPL to release it?

Which specific clause is that you're saying?

> I know that debian generally takes a firm stance on licensing issues and
> that there is generally a large review process that goes into ensuring
> that they dont violate licenses.  As such I believe that by including
> asterisk as part of the standard distribution (package-wise anwyay)
> someone must have resolved this issue.

Although someone may already knows this issue, I do not, but I believe the 
most common way to ensure that a package is free-software-compliant (the way 
the Debian project stands) is checking its source and if applicable, strip 
some parts of it (take a look at packages with "dfsg" in its name).

Asterisk packages comes with this "dfsg" in the name, but I thought it's just 
because the licensed sound files or sort of... anyway, I guess someone from 
the pkg-voip team can answer it far better and only regarding Asterisk :-)

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