[asterisk-biz] Use of Asterisk logo and name

[Trixter AKA Bret McDanel]

On Sat, July 29, 2006 8:23 am, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> ----- Doug Millsaps <lansiptelecom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a consultant, is the use of the Asterisk logo and name allowed? or
>> do you  have to have an agreement w/ Digium to use on marketing
>> materials?
>
> The Digium trademark policy is posted on the Digium website.
>

According to http://www.digium.com/en/company/profile/trademarkpolicy.php

Section 'The Trademarks'
Digium owns the following trademarks, among others: DIGIUM, ASTERISK, IAX,
and DUNDi.

Section 'Uses that are Not Approved by this Policy'
The calling of any software or product by the name "DIGIUM" or "ASTERISK"
(another Digium Trademark), unless that software or product is an
Unmodified Digium Product as defined in the "General" section of this
Trademark Policy.

Section 'General'
Digium considers it important to distinguish between "Unmodified" Digium
Software and third-party versions. Unmodified Digium Software is the
software in the same form as originally distributed by Digium, without
modification to the code of any extent.



So does Digium really want to say that if you take the GPL version of
asterisk you must go through and rename all references to iax, dundi,
digium and asterisk if you modifiy anything (or just add modules that
arent distributed with the digium codebase)?

Further you are not allowed to say that your product (perhaps a SOHO pbx
where you just combined asterisk, a few third party modules, and a soekris
box) is using Asterisk, or advertise iax or dundi as features of that pbx?



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