[asterisk-biz] Copy protect your Asterisk Box

[Paul]

My post was 100% intended to be sarcastic. Those of us who understand
the licenses already know that we can probably buy one system and copy
at least 98% of it legally. Then we look at the remaining 2% and see
that it is all derived from wikis, forums and mailing lists. So the idea
of copyrighting config files might be rather absurd in many cases. We
also know that the vendor is supposed to make source available under GPL
and many other licenses. So if the OP spent thousands of hours improving
a GPL GUI he is SOL.

Mike Hammett wrote:

> 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
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>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Matt Dunkin <mailto:mdunkin at innflux.com>
>     *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>     <mailto:asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>     *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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