[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Peter Nixon wrote:

> So what you are saying is that what Novell and SUSE do by distributing 
> Asterisk with OpenH323, Spandsp, BRIStuff and a few other patches all 
> together on their FTP site, CDs and DVDs (not to mention all of the 3rd party 
> mirrors) and calling them collectively Asterisk is illegal. Given that they 
> have been doing so for longer than 12 months and there is no way that Digium 
> could have not know about this has Digium filed suit against Novell for this 
> (According to you) Trademark and Copyright infringing behavior?

I'm saying that it is possible for this behavior to be considered a 
license/trademark infringement, if Digium chose to do so. Then again, 
IANAL, so I can't say with certainty that this is true... we will need 
to get some more clear trademark licensing documentation written before 
anyone could say conclusively exactly what sort of modifications are 
allowed without infringement.