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

[Paul Querna]

Paul Querna wrote:
> 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...
> 

And, on further thought, the UUID generation function signatures are not 
protected by the GPL.

They are set by the OSF DCE 1.1 standard, and are available on other 
platforms like Solaris, as a system library.

And, on even further investigation, the libuuid provided as part of 
e2fsprogs is *NOT* even under the GPL. Look at 
e2fsprogs-1.36/lib/uuid/COPYING.  This entire discussion is void.

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