On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 06:42 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > Contacting Digium sales would be a great place to start. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Saad Faisal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:46 AM > > To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion' > > Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk Licensing Question > > > > Just to elaborate a little more, we intend to use and bundle > > Asterisk for commercial purposes with the Open Source version > > ( not to be confused with Business Edition available from Digium). > >
Since its not asterisk business edition, it falls under the gpl (sorta, the issues with the gpl appear to be getting resolved though). The gpl allows you to sell products, so long as you make the source available for what you sell (you are only required to distribute the source to those that you distribute binaries to). This is similar to how redhat sells their distributions. According to the FSF you are free to include commercial software on the same distribution so long as it forms a "mere aggregation" and isnt part and parcel with the GPL software. The gpl is viewable at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html (ver 2 which covers most of asterisk). [EMAIL PROTECTED] will answer your questions, however if its for commercial purposes they will require a fee to do that. You may also forward that license to your lawyer and have them decide what you are and are not allowed to do. The current distribution of asterisk contains GPL, LGPL, 4 clause BSD (NetBSD), and possibly other software, however when its all distributed together the effective license is supposed to be the most restrictive one, ie the GPL (section 2c of the gpl). The 4 clause BSD stuff cant be licensed under the GPL (due to section 7 of the gpl) as such until that code is replaced technically no one has any right to use or distribute GPL asterisk becuase of a faulty license. As stated above this appearrs to be a work in progress, much has been done over the last 2 weeks to get asterisk to comply with the GPL, so its only a matter of time before the NetBSD code gets replaced. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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