R: [Asterisk-Users] Cisico ATA licence

[Michael Baird]

Well at least we don't have Janet Reno sending tanks in on civilians
anymore. 

Regards
MIKE

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:59, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 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.