[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation -- what about IPEYA

[Brian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flynn
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:12 AM
>
> Ya know, this could potentially be a long, ugly and drawn-out issue.
> Here's why I say so:
> 
> On the * Wiki you can find a list of Asterisk System vendors worldwide,
> from whom you can supposedly "purchase hardware with Asterisk already
> installed". I spent a couple of minutes browsing through that very list
> and found more than a few of them were putting out their own
> "product", without specifying (at least none that I saw) that it was
> based, or had anything to do, with Asterisk. So the only way for you to
> know that they are indeed using Asterisk was if you found them from that
> very list.
> 
> My company for one has not yet put out an official "product" based on
> Asterisk, and as it is perhaps it's a good thing -- I might just wait
> out until we see the final word on this before embarking on such a
> venture.
> 
> All in all, I'll just make sure that when we ship something out we're
> just going to leave the zap and Asterisk source codes intact in
> /usr/local/src and not bother to clean it up; the client will have root
> access and we'll just tell them about the GPL stuff in that directory.
> would this work?
> 
> Flynn

Please see section 3A of the GPL which can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

"3. a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source
code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on
a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,"