[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Eric Wieling]

el Flynn wrote:
> Brian West wrote:
> 
>> Ok I have known about this for over a month now and have yet to see 
>> anything
>> come of it.  Just a little note that Sysmaster is packaging up 
>> Asterisk in
>> their product and not giving a notice with the product with an offer 
>> to the
>> source of the the GPL software they use inside their products.  They even
>> lie and tell people such as myself outright that it's not Asterisk.  If
>> Digium doesn't push the issue it only weakens the GPL.
> 
> 
> So just to be clear: if vendors package Asterisk into their own 
> "product", they need to make it clear that it's running on Asterisk? Or 
> do they simply offer to make the source available for free (which, if 
> you give root access to the server, they will be able to get to)? Or both?
> 
> IANAL so can someone with more experience shed some light on this? Maybe 
> someone from Digium themselves can chirp in and lay down the facts 
> straight once and for all?

The requirements of what they must and must not do are all described in 
this file, which is included in the Asterisk source code:
   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html