[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jeremy McNamara wrote:

> Here is a selected portion of the strings output:
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# strings voipgw | grep Mark
> Written by Mark Spencer <markster at linux-support.net>
> [root at localhost ~]#strings voipgw | grep CVS
> Asterisk CVS-05/30/03-20:39:27 built by admin at SysMaster on a i686 
> running Linux
> CVS-05/30/03-20:39:27
> Asterisk CVS-05/30/03-20:39:27, Copyright (C) 2000-2002, Digium.
> Asterisk CVS-05/30/03-20:39:27, Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Linux Support 
> Services, Inc.

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> Upon confronting sysmaster with this fact, they (Mike Fahey, Ray 
> Martinez, and other more technical people) completely denied their usage 
> of Asterisk insisting they developed their solution in-house.
> 
> I too demand sysmaster either pay Digium for a non-gpl license or 
> publicly admit the fact that they have repackaged Asterisk and 
> contribute enhancements to Asterisk back to the GPL.

Wow.. this is totally unacceptable. Has anyone contacted the GNU 
Foundation about this?

What has Sysmaster's response been?

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