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

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Michiel van Baak wrote:
> On 16:44, Sat 08 Jul 06, Florian Overkamp wrote:
>> Point is, you do not really need a CH1 or CCME license, you are free to 
>> combine the Spare phone with a separate SIP license - the price is 
>> identical. It is NOT OK however to use a Spare phone without any 
>> license, as far as I am aware.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> freakinng licenses they have there :)
> 
> If you buy a model without the "spare" in it's name, you
> have the license to use them right ?
> 
> 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)

If you read Cisco's firmware license it specifically prohibits transfer 
of the license.  So if you buy used phones you still have to buy a new 
SIP license.

This is one of the reasons we went with Polycom instead of Cisco.

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