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Mike,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
BTW How about this weather in Illinois? I'll take 40's every Christmas.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Matt Dunkin<br>
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Mike Hammett wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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Mike Hammett<br>
Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Copy protect your Asterisk Box</div>
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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.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Matt Dunkin<br>
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Paul wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:sa@solomonstar.com"><sa@solomonstar.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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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