[SR-Users] Is Kamailio GPL or GPLv2

[Yan Gao]

Thanks a lot, Daniel.

Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> 于2021年6月15日周二 下午2:36写道：

> Hello,
> On 15.06.21 07:34, Yan Gao wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a question about the license of Kamailio.
>
> It is said to be GPL in https://www.kamailio.org/w/:
> "Kamailio® (successor of former OpenSER and SER) is an Open Source SIP
> Server released under GPL, able to handle thousands of call setups per
> second...."
>
> But GPLv2 in https://www.kamailio.org/w/info/ :
> "Kamailio  is released under GNU Public License v2 (GPLv2). Beginning with
> 3.0.0, the application includes parts of code under BSD license that can be
> used such as individual components."
>
> Which one is the correct description?
>
> actually it is GPLv2 or later, as the header of main.c file lists:
>
>   * https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/blob/master/src/main.c
>
> All (almost) source code files have the header with their license, several
> files/modules have also BSD license, if you want to use (extract) them
> individually. But over all, it is GPLv2+. Somehow GPL as a term got
> associated mainly with GPLv2 over the time.
>
> I updated the the web pages.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> --
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- www.asipto.comwww.twitter.com/miconda -- www.linkedin.com/in/miconda
>
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