[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Joe Greco]

> 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? 

No, they need to comply with the license requirements.

> 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)? 

Having root access does not mean you get the source.  It means you get the
executables.  Most commercial product distributions do not hand out source.

... JG
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