Ah! you must be American! :-)
Perhaps Zeeshan is looking for an understanding of the issues before
seeking legal advice (it's a lot cheaper that way).
Or perhaps it is a topic worthy of public discussion? I, for one, would
be interested in any known issues.
regards,
Drew
Eric Chamberlain wrote:
Shouldn't you ask your attorney these questions?
Any answers you receive here will not legally protect you.
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Eric Chamberlain , CISSP
Chief Technical Officer
Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of
*Zeeshan Zakaria
*Sent:* Monday, August 13, 2007 7:07 PM
*To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
*Subject:* [asterisk-users] Patent issues, what features we can't use?
Hi everybody,
As the Asterisk community is getting larger and larger, I was
wondering that the features which are provided in Asterisk and are
programmed by the open source community under GPL, or GUIs like
FreePBX which also come loaded with wonderful features and uses same
Asterisk, are they anywhere violating any patent laws? Most of the
features work the same way as Nortel, Avaya and other PBX systems. Is
there anyone who owns these features and will come one day to claim
his royalties?
When I deploy an asterisk soultion for a customer, is there any
violation of any patent or copyright laws anywhere? Of if I use my own
Asterisk server to provide services to some customers, am I violating
any patent laws by not paying the royalties to some patent owners?
I heard people saying that IVR technology is patented and google
search for patents also say so. But we all are using IVR for ourselves
and our customers without paying royalties to anyone. But when it
comes to using g729, all of a sudden royalty issue comes in.
So what is right to use and what is not?
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Zeeshan A Zakaria
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