[Asterisk-biz] copyright --may I use it for commercial business

[Alex Pui]

When Digium get the money from licensees, do they pay the other developers?
If this is not. Then I have a question, why they are the only one to enjoy
the license while they are not the only developer?

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Olle E.
Johansson
Sent: April 1, 2005 4:53 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] copyright --may I use it for commercial business

nicknie wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
>   I'm very interested in Asterisk PBX and have successfully installed it 
> in my home with 2 SIP phonesets. After further studying this system, I 
> find its functions are very useful in small business office. My questions:
>   1. May I install it in my company office for internal use?
Of course, it's open source.

>   2. If possible, may I do some further development to sell this system? 
> Who should I pay for the license and how much?

Please do further development and contribute it back to the community!
As long as you are using it yourself, you don't have to pay a license.

If you *sell* Asterisk with your own additions, you either have to
give the source code of your additions away to the buyer under the GPL 
license and he can do whatever he wants to do with it - or buy a 
commercial license from Digium and thus get the commercial rights to the 
software and the right to sell your customized version.

Regarding prices for that, contact Digium sales.
http://www.digium.com

Best regards,
/Olle
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