Topic: Did Dan say Copyright?

[BrianB]

I assume this is Dan York, Mitel's Director of Product Management (in http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?module=article&view=31&MMN_position=67:67)

Where he speaks about Mitel's copyrighted code placed under the GPL, but what about the Mitel-SME code not under the GPL? This source code has not been released so I imagine we could re-engineer those functions and reintroduce them into future versions.

The Blades panel and VPN come to mind first. This code was never published so I assume Mitel has not placed this code under the GPL. Are we free to work on what we want here?

thanks,
BrianB

[webweave]

I am interested in identifying just what parts need to be changed or recreated.

Is anyone working on this? Do you need help?

Any ideas on if there is a list of what is and is not GPL?

Could you point me to any project that is working on this?

I believe that the e-smith was an all GPL product but after the takeover Mitel started to introduce non-GPL into the product.

Am I correct?
Can someone straighten this out?

This matter seems important to me,  and the future of the product.

[Michiel]

I believe that the e-smith was an all GPL product but after the takeover Mitel started to introduce non-GPL into the product.

Everything that's on the SME ISO is GPL. Those parts that are Mitel proprietary are not on the SME distro.

[webweave]

Everything that's on the SME ISO is GPL

That may be true today but I have older ISOs with things like "Blades" panels that I know used to work. There are other functions that were part of the distro that were removed, unless someone else knows what they were I will look them up. This might be a good time to start to put together a history of the product, any one started one yet?

Also, I don't think that qmail is GPL either.