[asterisk-biz] Question about licensing of Asterisk

[Zoa]

There are several options:

If everything is hosted you can do whatever you want as long as you dont 
distribute anything.
If you distribute something and its released under GPL, no problem either.
If you have binary modules or applications for asterisk, (that are 
linked to asterisk) you will need to either provide the sources under 
GPL, or buy a commercial license from digium.
If you are running something that uses asterisk, but is not linked to 
asterisk (e.g. a GUI) this could be closed source without licensing fees.

This is how i see it, but maybe its better to contact a digium sales 
representative and check it out with them. (and ask for a quote if needed).

Zoa.

Antoine Fressancourt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question about Digium's policy around the commercialisation 
> of services built over the Asterisk platform.
>
> We are thinking about building a set of services on top of the 
> Asterisk platform and selling them. We are now in trouble analyzing 
> Digium's policy.
> We plan to set up service platforms (specific configuration files, 
> maybe modules) and either :
> - sell them as a hosted service,
> - operate them in our client's network,
> - distribute software we programmed on top of Asterisk.
>
> In each cases, do we owe something to Digium ? Do we have to pay any 
> license to Digium (we will of course respect Digium's Trademark 
> policy) as we may only build our services on the GPL'ed version of 
> Asterisk ?
>
> How will this evolve in the future ? Will Digium change its policy 
> about Asterisk ?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Antoine
>
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