[asterisk-biz] Copy protect your Asterisk Box

[Mike Hammett]

There's a difference between a copyright which is you legally saying that its yours and some sort of copy prevention.  That's saying you couldn't store anything GPL on anything encrypted.

If the man wants to do it, let the man do it.  There are plenty of other places his competitors could copy something similar from.


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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matt Dunkin 
  To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
  Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Copy protect your Asterisk Box


  I think one of the first people to respond hit this right on the head... Asterisk is GPL and you cannot copyright something that is GPL however you can copyright your configuration files and gui. I would suggest writing your gui in something that can be compiled and requires a unique license code (that is compiled from something unique on the pbx appliance, like the serial number on the hard drive) for operation. Even then you are only eliminating the average user as someone will eventually figure out how to hack it.

  Cheers,

  Matt Dunkin



  Paul wrote: 
Use an encrypted file system. Store the crypto key in a flash memory
device. Enclose everything in a thick steel case that is welded shut.
Add some switches to detect case intrusion and immediately erase the
flash device that stores the crypto keys.

C F wrote:

  While you at it, also make sure that whenever you are by a client,
modify their hosts file to redirect asterisk.org, digium.com, and
voip-info.org to your own website.

What makes you think that they can't go to the above websites after
you copy protect your box?

And BTW, even after copy protecting, how hard is it to clone an
offline HDD?

On 12/21/06, Stephen Arulraj <sa at solomonstar.com> wrote:

    Anybody has any idea how to protect your Linux box with a perfectly
running asterisk in it? I live in China and when I put together one and
sell it, it's likely to get copied by someone else and soon you see
clones appearing all over. How about a dongle of somesort?
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