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

Pilosoft, Inc. - for supporting ADSI development in Asterisk

Asterlink, Inc. - for supporting broad Asterisk development

GFS - for supporting ALSA development

Telesthetic - for supporting SIP development

Christos Ricudis - for substantial code contributions

nic.at - ENUM support in Asterisk

Paul Bagyenda, Digital Solutions - for initial Voicetronix driver development

=== WISHLIST CONTRIBUTERS ===
Jeremy McNamara - SpeeX support
Nick Seraphin - RDNIS support
Gary - Phonejack ADSI (in progress)
Wasim - Hangup detect

=== 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)

=== MISCELLANEOUS PATCHES ===
Jim Dixon - Zapata Telephony and app_rpt
        http://www.zapatatelephony.org/app_rpt.html

Russell Bryant - Asterisk 1.0 maintainer and misc. enhancements
        russelb@clemson.edu

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@yahoo.com              http://www.asterlink.com

James Golovich - Innumerable contributions
        You can find him and asterisk-perl at http://asterisk.gnuinter.net

Andre Bierwirth - Extension hints and status

Oliver Daudey - ISDN4Linux fixes

Pauline Middelink - ISDN4Linux patches and some general patches.
        She can be found at http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink/En/

Jean-Denis Girard - Various contributions from the South Pacific Islands
        jd-girard@esoft.pf             http://www.esoft.pf

William Jordan / Vonage - MySQL enhancements to Voicemail
        wjordan@vonage.com

Jac Kersing - Various fixes

Steven Critchfield - Seek and Trunc functions for playback and recording
        critch@basesys.com

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@oa.com.au

James Dennis - Cisco SIP compatibility patches to work with SIP service
        providers. Can be contacted at asterisk@jdennis.net

Tilghman Lesher - ast_localtime(); ast_say_date_with_format(); 
        GotoIfTime, Random, SayUnixTime, HasNewVoicemail applications;
        CUT, SORT, EVAL, CURL, FIELDQTY, STRFTIME, QUEUEAGENT* functions;
        and other innumerable bug fixes. http://asterisk.drunkcoder.com/

Jayson Vantuyl - Manager protocol changes, various other bugs.
        jvantuyl@computingedge.net

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@sigmasoft.com

Brian West - ODBC support and Bug Marshaling  

Josh Roberson - chan_zap reload support, Advanced Voicemail Features, other misc. patches,
        and Bug Marshalling. - josh@asteriasgi.com, http://www.asteriasgi.com

William Waites - syslog support, SIP NAT traversal for SIP-UA. ww@styx.org

Rich Murphey - Porting to FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin.
        rich@whiteoaklabs.com  http://whiteoaklabs.com

Simon Lockhart - Porting to Solaris (based on work of Logan ???)        
        simon@slimey.org

Olle E. Johansson - SIP RFC compliance, documentation and testing, testing, testing
        oej@edvina.net, http://edvina.net

Steve Kann - new jitter buffer for IAX2
        stevek@stevek.com

Constantine Filin - major contributions to the Asterisk Realtime Architecture

Steve Murphy - privacy support, $[ ] parser upgrade, AEL2 parser upgrade

Claude Patry - bug fixes, feature enhancements, and bug marshalling
        cpatry@gmail.com

Miroslav Nachev, miro@space-comm.com COSMOS Software Enterprises, Ltd.
        - for Variable for No Answer Timeout for Attended Transfer

Slav Klenov & Vanheuverzwijn Joachim - development of the generic jitterbuffer
        Securax Ltd. info@securax.be

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk - providing funding for generic jitterbuffer development
        roy@karlsbakk.net, Briiz Telecom AS

Voop A/S, Nuvio Inc, Inotel S.A and Foniris Telecom A/S - funding for rewrite of SIP transfers

Philippe Sultan - RADIUS CDR module
        INRIA, http://www.inria.fr/

John Martin, Aupix - Improved video support in the SIP channel

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@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@gdspartners.com

Bartosz Supczinski - Support for Polish added by DIR (www.dir.pl) Bartosz.Supczinski@dir.pl

James Rothenberger - Support for IMAP storage integration added by OneBizTone LLC Work funded by University of Pennsylvania jar@onebiztone.com

Paul Cadach - Bringing chan_h323 up to date, bug fixes, and more!

=== 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@clapper.org>

=== HOLD MUSIC ===
Music provided by www.freeplaymusic.com

=== 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
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

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.