[Asterisk-Dev] code theft again?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 11:14, Russell Bryant wrote:
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > i talked to someone on IRC that had been by http://
> > www.xoasisnetworks.com/ and had managed to get into the box and
> > downloaded the source code for the software. The ls -R is below.
>
> <snip>
>
> This is blatently Asterisk, and obviously, changing the copyright
> information is a very bad thing.  I have forwarded this information
> to the licensing director at Digium so that it can be properly
> handled through our lawyers.

It would be helpful for those of us with significant code contributions
to know what the status is for some of these GPL and copyright
violations.  For example, the SysMaster code is long known to be
infringing, yet there's been no information back from Digium as to
what they are actually doing about it.  Even a "we're currently in
negotiations" or "they have not yet purchased a business license
to the code" would be better than nothing.

As it stands, we're left wondering if we should file lawsuits
independently of Digium for these copyright violations.

-- 
Tilghman