Dear All, . After installing, testing and like many other I found that Asterisk is reliable and a great Open source telephony solutions for a professional use. I would like to create a business with *, offering it as a IP PBX solution to customer, as a server, whatever with some Digium HW and SIP phone, .. etc. Asking for something that might have been asked. What are the implications for creating a business based on * ? I know I should call it whatever, not use the name of * as Asterisk is a trademark of Digium and about GPL but are there some other constraints, considerations, restrictions .... I should be aware of ? What about modifing or adding some extra code sources, ... etc? Does anyone have such an experience ? Thanks in advance for any info, Frank frankostin@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050207/f16f58b4/attachment.htm
First off, you might want to take this question to the -biz list. Secondly, you seem to be asking for an executive summary of the GPL. Why don't you read it yourself to find out what "constraints, considerations, restrictions [you] should be aware of" especially when it comes to adding or modifying code. -----Original Message----- From: Frank Kostin [mailto:frankostin@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:24 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Pro biz Asterisk Dear All, . After installing, testing and like many other I found that Asterisk is reliable and a great Open source telephony solutions for a professional use. I would like to create a business with *, offering it as a IP PBX solution to customer, as a server, whatever with some Digium HW and SIP phone, .. etc. Asking for something that might have been asked. What are the implications for creating a business based on * ? I know I should call it whatever, not use the name of * as Asterisk is a trademark of Digium and about GPL but are there some other constraints, considerations, restrictions .... I should be aware of ? What about modifing or adding some extra code sources, ... etc? Does anyone have such an experience ? Thanks in advance for any info, Frank frankostin@yahoo.com Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'
Frank Kostin <frankostin@yahoo.com> wrote:>What about modifing or adding some extra code sources, ... etc?The GPL requires that if you make changes, you make the changed source available to anyone to whom you distribute the changed application. You needn't make the source publicly available, but you can't restrict those to whom you provide it from doing so. If your changes are used internally, you haven't distributed the changed application, and there is no issue of having to make the source available to anyone. If you are providing a service using the changed code, you still haven't distributed the changed app. (everybody duck now) Doug -- Doug Meredith (doug.meredith@systemguard.com) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com