Asterisk.org: Developer Documentation (28 Oct 2009)

Wed Oct 28 15:49:24 2009

## Asterisk developer's documentation

# CREDITS

    === 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)

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

    === 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

    === HOLD MUSIC ===
    Music provided by www.opsound.org

    === OTHER SOURCE CODE IN ASTERISK ===

    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.