[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Stefan Märkle]

> 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.


Seems like strong evidence for a GPL violation.
The Linux netfilter team was very active in the past few months to find license infringements with their software (Routers with iptables based firewalls).
They won all their cases (mostly before they came to a court), usually gaining a publishing of the modified source code under GPL and a 'donation' to one of the open source foundations or their project team.

So if one of the asterisk core team members wants a contact, Harald Welte was the one who fought this iirc (see http://gnumonks.org/users/laforge for contact details).

Stefan