[Asterisk-Users] Do you need a licence to connect a Ciscohardphone to Asterisk ?

[Florian Overkamp]

Michiel van Baak wrote:
> If you buy a model without the "spare" in it's name, you
> have the license to use them right ?

To use them with a CCM or CCME, yes :-)

> How about secondhand phones you get from ebay ?
> Is my cisco smartnet account enough to run the phone legally
> ? It's not a spare model (at least that was not in the deal
> description)

My understanding is, if you have any license at all, Cisco will probably 
not bother you. But it is most definitely not the way they intended :-)

Florian