R: [Asterisk-Users] Cisico ATA licence

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:44, Florian Overkamp wrote:
> At 10:20 6-3-2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 04:25, Matteo Brancaleoni wrote:
> > > the license is needed only with cisco
> > > callmanager. so you can ignore it and use
> > > both ports with asterisk ;-)
> >
> >Thats wrong according to the debates here and on the FWD mailing list.
> >The unit that Michiel was looking at contains software that connects to
> >the Cisco Call Manager, probably using skinney. What Michiel needs is
> >one with the SIP or H323  software load on it. The units with SIP or
> >H323 loaded on it usually have the license for both ports to use that
> >software.
> 
> Incorrect. The load that includes Skinny protocol also speaks MGCP, which 
> is perfectly useable with Asterisk. Besides, as I understand it Cisco won't 
> care that much if you load it up with the SIP/H323 stack either. But no-one 
> will confirm that officially ofcourse.

So to keep this from dragging out like the rest of the threads about
this have.

While they may not prosecute an individual for having loaded an
unlicensed stack on the hardware, it is unwise to suggest it in a
publicly available and archived list. Do remember here in the US we have
to now worry more about John Ashcroft than the company whose software we
use/abuse since John can bring charges on his own without the company.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>