[asterisk-biz] PBX Functionality for Less than the Price of a KeySystem (3Com Asterisk IP Telephony Appliance)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:15:49AM +0200, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> Basically it means if you remove something for reasons other than
> porting or add anything for any reason you cant use their trademarked
> words (among others: DIGIUM, ASTERISK, AsteriskNOW, IAX, and DUNDi)
> anywhere in the software or your product description.  

They can't protect IAX and DUNDi that way, I'm pretty sure; the
*protocols* would be stock, and therefore not violate the license --
but since usage of those particular terms is almost certainly
nominative anyway, they *still* couldn't enforce.

> Dont advertise it as asterisk or asterisk based per section "Uses that
> are Not Approved by this Policy" paragraph 3 in certain places of your
> web page (possibly not anywhere since that would influence search engine
> results if the engine indexes based on content).

"Asterisk-based" is, again, nominative.

It's also factually correct.  They can't, I don't think, control that
usage either, though IANAL.

Cheers,
-- jra
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