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=== DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT ===
We'd like to thank the following companies for helping fund development of
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Asterisk:

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Pilosoft, Inc. - for supporting ADSI development in Asterisk

Asterlink, Inc. - for supporting broad Asterisk development

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GFS - for supporting ALSA development

Telesthetic - for supporting SIP development

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Christos Ricudis - for substantial code contributions

Paul Bagyenda, Digital Solutions - for initial Voicetronix driver development
John Todd, TalkPlus, Inc.  and JR Richardson, Ntegrated Solutions. - for funding
    the development of SIP Session Timers support.

Omnitor AB, Gunnar Hellstrm, for funding work with videocaps, T.140 RED,
originate with video/text and many more contributions.

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=== WISHLIST CONTRIBUTERS ===
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Jeremy McNamara - SpeeX support
Nick Seraphin - RDNIS support
Gary - Phonejack ADSI (in progress)
Wasim - Hangup detect
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=== HARDWARE DONORS === 
* Thanks to QuickNet Technologies for their donation of an Internet
PhoneJack and Linejack card to the project.  (http://www.quicknet.net)

* Thanks to VoipSupply for their donation of Sipura ATAs to the project for
T.38 testing. (http://www.voipsupply.com)

* Thanks to Grandstream for their donation of ATAs to the project for
T.38 testing. (http://www.grandstream.com)
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=== MISCELLANEOUS PATCHES ===
Jim Dixon - Zapata Telephony and app_rpt
	http://www.zapatatelephony.org/app_rpt.html
Russell Bryant - Asterisk release manager and countless enhancements and bug
	fixes.
	russell(AT)digium.com

Anthony Minessale II - Countless big and small fixes, and relentless forward
	push. ChanSpy, ForkCDR, ControlPlayback, While/EndWhile, DumpChan, Dictate,
	MacroIf, ExecIf, ExecIfTime, RetryDial, MixMonitor applications; many
	realtime concepts and implementation pieces, including res_config_odbc;
	format_slin; cdr_custom; several features in Dial including L(), G() and
	enhancements to M() and D(); several CDR enhancements including CDR
	variables; attended transfer; one touch record; native MOH; manager
	eventmask; command line '-t' flag to allow recording/voicemail on nfs
	shares; #exec command and multiline comments in config files; setvar in iax
	and sip configs.
	anthmct(AT)yahoo.com              http://www.asterlink.com
James Golovich - Innumerable contributions, including SIP TCP and TLS support.
	You can find him and asterisk-perl at http://asterisk.gnuinter.net
Andre Bierwirth - Extension hints and status
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Jean-Denis Girard - Various contributions from the South Pacific Islands
	jd-girard(AT)esoft.pf             http://www.esoft.pf
William Jordan / Vonage - MySQL enhancements to Voicemail
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Jac Kersing - Various fixes
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Steven Critchfield - Seek and Trunc functions for playback and recording
Jefferson Noxon - app_lookupcidname, app_db, and various other contributions
Klaus-Peter Junghanns - in-band DTMF on SIP and MGCP
Ross Finlayson - Dynamic RTP payload support
Mahmut Fettahlioglu - Audio recording, music-on-hold changes, alaw file
	format, and various fixes. Can be contacted at mahmut(AT)oa.com.au
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James Dennis - Cisco SIP compatibility patches to work with SIP service
	providers. Can be contacted at asterisk(AT)jdennis.net
Tilghman Lesher - ast_localtime(); ast_say_date_with_format(); 
	GotoIfTime, SayUnixTime, HasNewVoicemail applications;
	CUT, SORT, EVAL, CURL, FIELDQTY, STRFTIME, some QUEUE* functions;
	func_odbc, cdr_adaptive_odbc, and other innumerable bug fixes.
	tilghman(AT)digium.com            http://asterisk.drunkcoder.com/
Jayson Vantuyl - Manager protocol changes, various other bugs.
Thorsten Lockert - OpenBSD, FreeBSD ports, making MacOS X port run on 10.3,
	dialplan include verification, route lookup on OpenBSD, SNMP agent
	support (res_snmp), various other bugs. tholo(AT)sigmasoft.com
Josh Roberson - chan_zap reload support, Advanced Voicemail Features, & other
	misc. patches. - josh(AT)asteriasgi.com, http://www.asteriasgi.com
William Waites - syslog support, SIP NAT traversal for SIP-UA. ww(AT)styx.org
Rich Murphey - Porting to FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin.
	rich(AT)whiteoaklabs.com  http://whiteoaklabs.com
Simon Lockhart - Porting to Solaris (based on work of Logan ???)	
Olle E. Johansson - SIP RFC compliance, documentation and testing, testing,
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	SIP outbound proxy support, Manager 1.1 update, SIP transfer support,
	SIP presence support, SIP call state updates (dialog-info), 
	QUEUE_EXISTS function, device state provider architecture,
	multiparking (together with mvanbaak), meetme and parking device states,
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	MiniVM - the small voicemail system, many documentation
	updates/corrections, and many bug fixes.
	oej(AT)edvina.net, http://edvina.net
Steve Kann - new jitter buffer for IAX2
Constantine Filin - major contributions to the Asterisk Realtime Architecture
Steve Murphy - privacy support, $[ ] parser upgrade, AEL2 parser upgrade.
	murf(AT)digium.com
Claude Patry - bug fixes, feature enhancements, and bug marshalling
Miroslav Nachev, miro(AT)space-comm.com COSMOS Software Enterprises, Ltd.
	- for Variable for No Answer Timeout for Attended Transfer
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Slav Klenov & Vanheuverzwijn Joachim - development of the generic jitterbuffer

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk - providing funding for generic jitterbuffer development
	roy(AT)karlsbakk.net, Briiz Telecom AS
Voop AS, Nuvio Inc, Inotel S.A and Foniris Telecom A/S - funding for rewrite
	of SIP transfers
Philippe Sultan - RADIUS CDR module, many fixes to res_jabber and gtalk/jingle
	channel drivers.
	INRIA, http://www.inria.fr/

John Martin, Aupix - Improved video support in the SIP channel
	T.140 text support in RTP/SIP
Steve Underwood - Provided T.38 pass through support.

George Konstantoulakis - Support for Greek in voicemail added by InAccess
	Networks (work funded by HOL, www.hol.gr) gkon(AT)inaccessnetworks.com
Daniel Nylander - Support for Swedish and Norwegian languages in voicemail.
	http://www.danielnylander.se/
Stojan Sljivic - An option for maximum number of messsages per mailbox in
	voicemail.  Also an issue with voicemail synchronization has been fixed.
	GDS Partners www.gdspartners.com .  stojan.sljivic(AT)gdspartners.com
Bartosz Supczinski - Support for Polish added by DIR (www.dir.pl)
	Bartosz.Supczinski(AT)dir.pl
James Rothenberger - Support for IMAP storage integration added by
	OneBizTone LLC Work funded by University of Pennsylvania jar(AT)onebiztone.com
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Paul Cadach - Bringing chan_h323 up to date, bug fixes, and more!

Voop AS - Financial support for a lot of work with the SIP driver and the IAX
	trunk MTU patch
Cedric Hans - Development of chan_unistim
  cedric.hans(AT)mlkj.net

Takao Takahashi & Mina Naguib - chan_unistim improvements for smaller devices

Sergio Fadda - console_video: video support for chan_oss and chan_alsa

Marta Carbone - console_video and the astobj2 framework

Luigi Rizzo - astobj2, console_video, windows build, chan_oss cleanup,
	and a bunch of infrastructure work (loader, new_cli, ...)
Brett Bryant - digit option for musiconhold selection, ENUMQUERY and ENUMRESULT functions,
	feature group configuration for features.conf, per-file CLI debug and verbose settings,
	TCP and TLS support for SIP, and various bug fixes.
	brettbryant(AT)gmail.com

Sergey Tamkovich - Realtime support for MusicOnHold, store and destroy realtime methods and
	implementations for odbc, sqlite, and pgsql realtime drivers, attended transfer updates,
	multiple speeds for ControlPlayback, and multiple bug fixes
	- See http://voip-info.org/users/view/sergee
	serg(AT)voipsolutions.ru

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Klaus Darillon - the SIPremoveHeader function in chan_sip

Moises Silva (moy) - for writing LibOpenR2, and providing support for it in chan_dahdi
     moises.silva(AT)gmail.com

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Eliel C. Sardanons - XML documentation implementation, and various other contributions
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Sean Bright - Snom call pickup, newt interface for menuselect, cdr_tds rewrite,
	countless other improvements, fixes, and good ideas.
Jan Kalb - Calendaring support for Exchange Server 2007+ via Exchange Web Services.

University of Oslo (uio.no), Norway - SIP Max-Forwards setting support (developed by oej)

FCCN, Lissabon, Portugal - SIP show channels CLI command (developed by oej)

Viagenie, Canada - IPv6 support in socket layers and SIP implementation
	Developers: Marc Blanchet, Simon Perreault and Jean-Philippe Dionne

ClearIT AB, Sweden - res_mutestream, queue_exists and various other patches (developed by oej)

Despegar.com, Argentina - AstData API implementation, also sponsored by Google as part of the
	gsoc/2009 program (developed by Eliel)

Philippe Lindheimer - DEV_STATE additions to CCSS

=== OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ===
John Todd - Monkey sounds and associated teletorture prompt
Michael Jerris - bug marshaling
Leif Madsen, Jared Smith and Jim van Meggelen - the Asterisk book
	available under a Creative Commons License at http://www.asteriskdocs.org
Brian M. Clapper - poll.c emulation
	This product includes software developed by Brian M. Clapper <bmc(AT)clapper.org>
Music provided by www.opsound.org
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=== OTHER SOURCE CODE IN ASTERISK ===
Asterisk uses libedit, the lightweight readline replacement from NetBSD.
The cdr_radius module uses libradiusclient-ng, which is also from NetBSD.
They are BSD-licensed and require the following statement:

      This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
      Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
Digium did not implement the codecs in Asterisk.  Here is the copyright on the
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GSM source:

Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann,
Technische Universitaet Berlin

Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is not
removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische Universitaet Berlin
are deemed to have made any representations as to the suitability of this
software for any purpose nor are held responsible for any defects of
this software.  THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE.

As a matter of courtesy, the authors request to be informed about uses
this software has found, about bugs in this software, and about any
improvements that may be of general interest.

Berlin, 28.11.1994
Jutta Degener
Carsten Bormann

And the copyright on the ADPCM source:

Copyright 1992 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.

	                 All Rights Reserved
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Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the names of Stichting Mathematisch
Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to
distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.

STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO
THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE
FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.