[asterisk-biz] Use of Asterisk logo and name

[Dinesh Nair]

On 07/30/06 04:10 Trixter AKA Bret McDanel said the following:
> 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)?

this was the same question i asked before, with respect to FreeBSD porting 
of Asterisk, and i'm being optimistic when i think that for porting work to 
another open source operating system and complying with the GPL in all 
aspect, there really shouldn't be any restrictions.

commercially however, when people want to ship boxes with Asterisk 
preinstalled AND if you've made modifications to Asterisk (even while 
complying with the GPL), it would be safe to remove all references to 
Digium and Asterisk from it.

the reasons behind this, and these are MY opinions not anyone elses, are 
perhaps that the quality of the Asterisk product needs to be maintained by 
Digium. they, rightly, wouldn't want people saying Asterisk is of inferior 
quality when it crashes due to these modifications.

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