[asterisk-biz] Copy protect your Asterisk Box

[Matt Dunkin]

Mike,

I absolutely agree... If he wants to prevent them from copying the hard 
drive then by all means... I was just laying out the copyright issue. He 
would still be required to provide source, upon request, for the GPL 
parts. ;)  I think the main goal here is protecting his work, not 
someone else's.

BTW How about this weather in Illinois? I'll take 40's every Christmas.

Thanks,

Matt Dunkin



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