[Asterisk-Dev] Real UniqueIDs (GUID/UUID) for CDRs

[Paul Querna]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 March 2005 14:41, Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
>>A bit ago, there was a conversation about having GUIDs/UUIDs in CDRs.
>>Something that'll be guaranteed unique even with a large farm of
>>Asterisk servers busily generating CDRs.
>>
>>Instead of making up an algorithm, I just added support for uuids
>>(libuuid), which bases off the MAC address and some other things, and
>>gives a guarantee of uniqueness for a high-volume environment.
>>
>>There's a patch to the core CDR code, plus I made cdr_csv support it
>>as well. To anyone interested, please add on patches for other CDR
>>modules (I'm not familiar with them at all).
>>
>>http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0003780
> 
> 
> libuuid is licensed under GPL, which is incompatible with the Asterisk
> license, unless you can convince Digium to make another license
> exception for libuuid.  Other than that, you'll also have to write your
> own builtin implementation of uuid_generate_time(), as *BSD does not
> contain an implementation of uuid_generate_time() either.
> 

UUID Code is available in FreeBSD under the BSD License:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/uuid/

I wrote the code in the Apache Portable runtime that uses this...

-Paul