I do take a little offense to the statement we are plastering banners everywhere pushing our services. Now we also have bills to pay and mouths to feed so we offer paid offerings from Support, Training and Certification to Commercial Modules. Earlier this year we purchased the Trademark of FreePBX from and also the domains of and so yes that does entitle us have the Schmooze Name on the FreePBX website and product versus some random ABC Company.
Schmooze Com has been a sponsor and active in FreePBX for the past 4 plus years.
FreePBX is a US Registered Trademark registration number 3365377 and has been for 6 or so years. Secondly just because something is GPL does not mean their is not copyright and trademark. I am a little late here but I want to clarify something.įreePBX the GUI ontop of asterisk is GPL and has been GPL from day one. I guess you need to decide, do you want to swim alone or identify yourself with the team? Have you seen the announcement about the new reseller/certified integrator program? This is also a great opportunity attach yourself to the ecosystem and identify your company as truly possessing the intellectual and monetary capital to support Open Source Telephony.ĭigium and FreePBX in a Flash are both including the Schmooze app store in their respective distro’s. It increases our viability and comfort level with the investment. Creating artificial value thorough branding or other exclusionary tactics has never made sense for us.īy identifying ourselves and our relationship with Schmooze our customers know that we have resources outside of our firm. I have never had an issue explaining the ecosystem to my customers and where are value is. You need to consider that you are denying you customers access to the new app store and all the wonderful commercial add ons.Ĭonsider this, my company has been integrating FreePBX for years, also hosts and sells the Schmooze commercial PBX’s.
Licensing of that code (not required to use FreePBX) is completely up to Schmooze. Now if you are talking about the ISO, that is a different story. They have always been fair to my company. If you want a branded distro talk to Tony at Schmooze, if it’s commercially reasonable I am sure they will consider it. When you say “name on the product” I am not sure what you mean. The terms of FreePBX branding have not changed.Ĥ - FreePBX is still licensed under the GPL, nothing has changed in that regard.
I am not intimately familiar with the license agreement, I suggest you take a look before removing trademarks. FreePBX is still available as a stand alone tarball. Schmooze started the distro project from day 1.
I guess the question is, can we submit a large amount of money and resources as well to “The Community” to get our name on the product? Who makes the decisions? If its truly free and open - can I submit my name and logo into the product as well and remove all the Schmooze advertising?ġ - FreePBX certification has always been offered by SchmoozeĢ - Yep, did you see the announcement that Schmooze purchased all rights to the name FreePBX, and the SIPstation VoIP ITSP business?ģ - I think you are confusing FreePBX with the FreePBX distro. In general I’m seeing that (with much props, respect, and Hat’s off to all the developers of Schmooze, Inc for their contributions) instead of being a Free and Open product, includes a ton of advertising and what not of Schmooze’s into the FreePBX product itself.įor the record, I have no issue with what they are doing, but I’m trying to understand if FreePBX is truly “Free” and “open” or if the licensing is all to Schmooze? If I want my customers to talk to us for support, but there are huge SCHMOOZE banners all over the place, it has significant potential to remove revenue from us. I see that the FreePBX logo is a registered trademark of Schmoozecom. I see FreePBX Certification is offered (By Schmoozecom) I’ve been using freepbx for about 5 years now…I see on this forum though that FreePBX is rapidly becoming (or has already become) a product of Schmoozecom…Is that the case?