[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Matt Riddell]

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 01:08 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 
>>I am offering, in my official capacity, a possible extension to the 
>>LICENSE file that would more clearly indicate the circumstances under 
>>which the Asterisk trademark could be used or not used. Since I posted 
>>that message, I have realized that any changes in that direction would 
>>have to be even more 'complete' than what I proposed, so I will work 
>>with our licensing manager and others to come up with something that is 
>>in everyone's best interests.
>>
> 
> God bless estoppel :)
> 
> 
>>We certainly do not want to place restrictions on 'bundling' of Asterisk 
>>into distributions or in other forms where the intent is that the end 
>>product will still be 'Asterisk', but at the same time we need to 
>>protect (as you already pointed out in another response) our trademark 
>>and the license exceptions associated with it.
> 
> 
> I wouldnt imagine that you would, that kinda goes against making it open
> source in the first place.  This is one of the problems with making
> restrictions in a license, it becomes very murky very quickly.
> Especially when dealing with a global marketplace.  
> 
> On a side note but vaguely related to this (licensing in general) does
> digium charge EU patrons for the g.729 codec?  I understand that digium
> is in the US and that it can cause them problems if they dont charge,
> however there is no legal requirement for anyone in the EU currently to
> pay to use the codec, providing they can get it in the first place.

Eh?!

So you think that France Telecom hasn't assigned SipPro to handle the
licencing for Europe?

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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