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    <p>I think it is not easy to impose any further restriction not to
      distribute the sources, but one can try ... in some (many)
      countries licenses and patents are not recognized or not enforced.</p>
    <p>Cheers,<br>
      Daniel<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10.02.22 11:47, Alex Balashov wrote:<br>
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      Come to think of it, I imagine the license has language saying
      that it cannot be superseded in part or in whole by any
      contradictory agreement.<br>
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        <div>Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and
          errors.</div>
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        <blockquote type="cite">On Feb 10, 2022, at 5:42 AM, Alex
          Balashov <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com"><abalashov@evaristesys.com></a> wrote:<br>
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          Is it legally possible for a customer to separately contract
          away a right that the license otherwise affords them, such as
          the GPL right to demand source code and then turn around and
          distribute that source code?
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          <div>I have to wonder if it’s possible in the US. It seems
            like it shouldn’t be, but in principle, in the prevailing
            theme of Anglo-American jurisprudence, it’s possible to
            contract away pretty much anything, no matter how adverse to
            one’s interests, so long as it is done “freely”.<br>
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                <div>Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity
                  and errors.</div>
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                <blockquote type="cite">On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:37 AM,
                  Henning Westerholt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hw@gilawa.com"><hw@gilawa.com></a> wrote:<br>
                  <br>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">just
                        to add to the discussion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                    <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
                      <li class="MsoListParagraph"
                        style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB">Please have a look to the GPLv2
                          FAQ, many topics you’ve raised are discussed
                          there
                          <a
                            href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
                      <li class="MsoListParagraph"
                        style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB">You should really consult a
                          lawyer for this specific questions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
                    </ul>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Regarding
                        the licence of the configuration (native script
                        vs. KEMI) – my understanding would be that a
                        native Kamailio cfg script would be independent
                        of GPL as its interpreted (and practically the
                        customer gets the “source code” anyway). But
                        KEMI LUA code that is pre-compiled would fall
                        under the GPL, so the customer has a right to
                        get the source code for it. Compare e.g., to
                        this:
                        <a
href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL"
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Henning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB">-- <o:p>
                          </o:p></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB">Henning Westerholt –
                        </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a
                            href="https://skalatan.de/blog/"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                              style="color:#0563C1" lang="EN-GB">https://skalatan.de/blog/</span></a></span><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB">Kamailio services –
                        </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a
                            href="https://gilawa.com/"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                              style="color:#0563C1" lang="EN-GB">https://gilawa.com</span></a></span><span
                          style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
                          lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                        style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><b>From:</b>
                          sr-users
                          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org"><sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org></a>
                          <b>On Behalf Of </b>Olle E. Johansson<br>
                          <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:13
                          AM<br>
                          <b>To:</b> Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List
                          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sr-users@lists.kamailio.org"><sr-users@lists.kamailio.org></a><br>
                          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [SR-Users] SEMS license
                          with kamailio and rtpengine<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Hi
                      Seven!<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Note
                        that many of these questions open a legal
                        discussion that has been going on for many
                        years. I base my answers on what I know, which
                        may not be the full truth. Regardless, I have
                        been involved in these kind of discussions for
                        almost 30 years of working in open source.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">First,
                        note that there are two kind of situations to
                        observe. One is when your application is
                        executing in a system. The other is the license
                        of the written source code files. <o:p></o:p></p>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Secondly,
                        license and copyright are two different things.
                        You always have the copyright to your source
                        code.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">In
                        Kamailio there are source code files that have a
                        different license than the rest of the files.
                        That means that if you copy that source code and
                        create a new product that license applies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Kamailio
                        as a whole is released under GPL version 2. When
                        you run Kamailio in your server, that license
                        applies to it all, regardless of the license of
                        various source code files.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Also
                        note that I base this discussion on a delivery
                        of a system to a customer. When you run Kamailio
                        as a service you do not deliver (according to
                        GPL v2) and the customer doesn’t have the same
                        rights to the source.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Also
                        note that (as other persons has pointed out)
                        that it’s the recipient of the binaries that has
                        the rights, not the world. If I am not your
                        customer, I can’t demand the source code
                        according to the GPL. The customer that receives
                        the code has the right to do whatever they want
                        with it - like publishing the source on GitHub
                        for the world to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                    </div>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
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                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:35.4pt">10 feb. 2022
                              kl. 00:16 skrev Seven Du <<a
                                href="mailto:dujinfang@gmail.com"
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">dujinfang@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">I have some
                                  questions on this, e.g. on Kamailio:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">1. The core
                                  and some modules is GPL. I packaged
                                  that without change, and sell to a
                                  customer. and when the customer
                                  asks for source, I told him to
                                  download from the kamailio website,
                                  since I didn't change anything. Is
                                  that correct?<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">How
                          you distribute the source code to the customer
                          is irrelevant here. Note that if you end up
                          having to provide it on a floppy disk or a USB
                          stick, you can charge for that according to
                          the GPL :-)<br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
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                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">2. I can
                                  also host the source on my own
                                  website, with some more helper scripts
                                  for building and packaging. That
                                  should be better?<o:p></o:p></p>
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                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">I
                          can’t judge if it’s better or worse, it has
                          very little relevance to with the license.
                          Just make sure that you include the signatures
                          made by the Kamailio team so the customer can
                          trace it back to the source and make sure
                          there’s no changes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
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                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">3. I write
                                  a new module, 100% code wrote from
                                  scratch, just follow the module
                                  guidelines or example code to
                                  expose/add hooks to core,  dynamically
                                  loaded into kamailio. Do I need to use
                                  GPL or can it be any license or even
                                  closed source? can I sell the
                                  standalone module in binary?<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Your
                          source code has to be licensed in a license
                          that can end up being compatible with GPL. You
                          can not have a commercial license on it, since
                          when executing it as part of Kamailio, GPL
                          applies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Since
                          your module ends up being GPL while running in
                          a system you deliver for a fee or for free to
                          your customer, your customers has a right to
                          the source code.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                      </div>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
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                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">4. my
                                  module still should be GPL since I
                                  have to call GPL code in kamailio
                                  source, e.g. string functions in core.
                                  or maybe it's ok if string functions
                                  in kamailio core is BSD?<o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">When
                          executing ALL of Kamailio is GPL, including
                          all linked modules.<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
                          style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">5. If my
                                  module link to a 3rd party lib (e.g.
                                  libclosed-source.so or
                                  libclosed-source.a I think there's no
                                  difference?) which is not open source
                                  (but free to sell), can I sell it w/o
                                  the source of libclosed-source ?<o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Linking
                          means that you execute in the same processes
                          and according to most this means that GPL
                          applies. That’s why we have a lot of protocols
                          where most people think that GPL does not
                          apply, even though some people want to discuss
                          that. In my personal view it’s ok to write
                          commercial software that communicates over RPC
                          or by using the http_client with Kamailio.<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">In
                          Asterisk, the license specially permits this
                          use of the various Asterisk protocols since
                          there was discussions. Most Asterisk
                          developers believed it wasn’t necessary and
                          that GPL did not apply when using protocol
                          based API’s. But nevertheless, just to avoid
                          discussions, this was clarified in the
                          license.<br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
                          style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">6. If
                                  answer to 5 is yes, I can write my own
                                  libclosed-source and sell with
                                  whatever license?<o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">You
                          can, but if it links to Kamailio in run-time,
                          then it will at that point become GPL licensed
                          regardless of what you have written. That’s
                          why many companies stay away from GPL,
                          especially libraries that are licensed with
                          GPL, because it can affect your own licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
                          style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">7. Regards
                                  to KEMI, if I write routing scripts
                                  with Lua (compiled with luac) and sell
                                  to a customer, should I open source
                                  the Lua code? The Lua code calls
                                  Kamailio core functions which might be
                                  GPL.<o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">That
                          is an interesting question which I’m not ready
                          to answer. I think the intention of the
                          Kamailio dev team is that your code should not
                          be affected by GPL, but we may want to clarify
                          that.<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">If
                          you write a regular configuration script I
                          would personally clearly think you have the
                          rights to that. The idea with KEMI was to
                          introduce modern ways of writing configuration
                          scripts.<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
                          style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt">Thanks. I
                                  don't mean to violate the GPL, just
                                  want to be clear and easier to
                                  understand the license.<o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </blockquote>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Always
                          good to start the day with a GPL discussion
                          :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">/O<br>
                          <br>
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <blockquote
                          style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:35.4pt">On Wed,
                                    Feb 9, 2022 at 9:05 PM Henning
                                    Westerholt <<a
                                      href="mailto:hw@gilawa.com"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">hw@gilawa.com</a>>
                                    wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                                <blockquote
                                  style="border:none;border-left:solid
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt">Hello,<br>
                                    <br>
                                    (just to add the obvious disclaimer
                                    that this is not legal advice, I am
                                    not a lawyer).<br>
                                    <br>
                                    > [Would it be ok] if it were
                                    [using] a standalone service to
                                    which Kamailio interfaced using very
                                    narrowly confined and
                                    general-purpose communication
                                    channels?<br>
                                    <br>
                                    I do not think there is a problem
                                    regarding to the GPL in this case.
                                    Interfacing over SIP/HTTP/RPC/XMLRPC
                                    or other standard mechanism to a
                                    dedicated process would not
                                    establish a close coupling between
                                    Kamailio and the other code.<o:p></o:p></p>
                                </blockquote>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                                </div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:35.4pt">I think
                                    it's correct. e.g. if you use evapi
                                    or http to talk to your service you
                                    don't have to open source your
                                    service code.<o:p></o:p></p>
                                </div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:35.4pt"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                                </div>
                                <blockquote
                                  style="border:none;border-left:solid
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                                  6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm">
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:35.4pt">Cheers,<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Henning<br>
                                    <br>
                                    -- <br>
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                                      href="https://skalatan.de/blog/"
                                      target="_blank"
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                                    -----Original Message-----<br>
                                    From: sr-users <<a
                                      href="mailto:sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org"
                                      target="_blank"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org</a>>
                                    On Behalf Of Alex Balashov<br>
                                    Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022
                                    1:50 PM<br>
                                    To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing
                                    List <<a
                                      href="mailto:sr-users@lists.kamailio.org"
                                      target="_blank"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
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                                    Subject: Re: [SR-Users] SEMS license
                                    with kamailio and rtpengine<br>
                                    <br>
                                    <br>
                                    > On Feb 9, 2022, at 7:46 AM,
                                    Henning Westerholt <<a
                                      href="mailto:hw@gilawa.com"
                                      target="_blank"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">hw@gilawa.com</a>>
                                    wrote:<br>
                                    > <br>
                                    >> If modules are designed to
                                    run linked together in a shared
                                    address space, that almost surely
                                    means combining them into one
                                    program.”<br>
                                    > <br>
                                    > This is exactly what applies to
                                    Kamailio due to the core and module
                                    architecture. The core and modules
                                    also share common data structures
                                    and memory segments.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    I see. So, practically, the only way
                                    a custom module could be considered
                                    meaningfully separate according to
                                    these criteria is if it were a
                                    standalone service to which Kamailio
                                    interfaced using very narrowly
                                    confined and general-purpose
                                    communication channels?<br>
                                    <br>
                                    — Alex<br>
                                    <br>
                                    -- <br>
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