[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Dinesh Nair wrote:

> person B downloads asterisk from www.asterisk.org, modifies some GPLed 
> asterisk code, links in open{ssl,h323} and distributes sources to the 
> whole shebang (including the modifications) , and this is not ok ?

That modified distribution cannot be called 'Asterisk', since Asterisk 
is a trademark owned by Digium and only usable for distributions of 
source code that we produce. Once the distribution is no longer called 
'Asterisk', the GPL exceptions no longer apply.