Comments on: Keeping It Real: Holey Socks! It’s the Missing FreePBX GPL Source Code, Or Is It?

By: KrzyKat

KrzyKat — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:11:00 +0000

People will come to them because it is easy to do so. The good money they make will be from support hours (they know their product better than anyone) and from commercial modules. Why don’t they make it more open and then they can even sell their modules anywhere such as you see Elastix do at addons.elastix.org ??? I guess they’re afraid someone would build a better commercial module and undercut them? Holding on too tight can actually be detrimental to the success they could see.

Thanks for all this work – and please keep us posted on developments

By: Simon H

Simon H — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:24:43 +0000

Great stuff, keep up the good work.
But what if they do nothing ? They are in breach of the GPL – but who is able to enforce that ? Anyone with the object code (ie any user), or only a copyright holder ? And on that, I had a quick look at GitHub, and although I could see a Licence file with GPL3 I didn’t see any copyright notices.

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:25:05 +0000

So what recourse is there? What if Sangoma thumbs their nose at your argument?

[WM: Love the nose joke. Stay tuned. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. –Lenny Kravitz]