[Asterisk-Users] Re: SS7 and Asterisk solution

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <41E82B0F.9060507 at fnords.org>,
Eric Wieling aka ManxPower <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
> Matthew Boehm wrote:
> > So are you telling me that you cannot use other commercial products in
> > conjunction with asterisk?
> 
> You cannot distribute a closed source add-on (except AGI) for Asterisk 
> without a commercial license for Asterisk.  This is just standard GPL 
> stuff, not Asterisk sprcific.

To be more specific, if it is code that links with Asterisk at the object
code level (i.e. it is compiled directly in, or lives in a .so file in
/usr/lib/asterisk/modules), then that code either has to be GPL, or else
the copy of Asterisk must be commercially licensed.

Code that is a separate executable, and only communicates with Asterisk
via a communication channel (e.g. AGI, Manager API, etc) does not have
to be GPL in order to be used with a GPL Asterisk.

Cheers
Tony
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