[Bug 177583] Review Request: zaptel-kmod

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Summary: Review Request: zaptel-kmod


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177583





------- Additional Comments From kpfleming at digium.com  2006-07-27 12:28 EST -------
There are two primary reasons why we distribute Zaptel separately from the
kernel source trees (and have not even offered them for inclusion in the source
trees):

1) Zaptel supports both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel series, and many users will run 2.4
kernels but want access to driver fixes and drivers for new hardware as it
arrives. Since the 2.4 kernel tree is essentially closed for new features, it's
not likely we could get Zaptel merged into the 2.4 kernel tree, and thus we'd
need to continue distributing it separately even if it was merged into the 2.6
tree (thus creating extra work for us to keep them in sync). As we move to
supporting more the 2.6 kernel's new features in Zaptel, it's likely that we
will discontinue support for the 2.4 kernel in the reasonably near feature, and
at that time we can look at this issue again if it makes sense to do so.

2) Zaptel is available under both the GPLv2 license and also non-open-source
commercial licenses negotiated with Digium. This means that contributions to
Zaptel must be licensed for Digium to use them in non-open-source distributions,
and thus we must strictly control the changes that get merged into the Zaptel
source trees. If the Zaptel source was merged into the 2.6 kernel, there would
be no method to continue this process (changes merged by other kernel developers
would be made directly in the 2.6 tree, bypassing our licensing process), and
the 2.6 tree version would begin to diverge from our dual-licensed version,
which is not a situation we wish to be the case.

I'm happy to provide any additional information that is needed here; we'd like
to see Asterisk and Zaptel in Fedora Extras as well, so we'll do anything that's
within reason to help achieve that goal :-)

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