[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Steve Underwood]

The reason these threads end up rambling on far too much is people post 
without reading anything pertinent in the previsious messages.

SysMaster has been vehemently denying their systems are based on 
Asterisk, so they have *not* been making any source available, or 
telling customers where you might find it. However, their system does 
nothing whatsoever to disguise that is really is *. They seem far too 
lazy to do any actual work, so probably the code they use is * without 
any modifications. However, the licence requires they tell customers how 
to get obtain unmodified source code.

Steve


Cirelle Enterprises wrote:

>I must be missing something with the GPL...
>
>Nowhere does it say you need to advertise the open source
>product in your sales literature.
>
>All (from what I gather) is necessary, is to make available
>the source or instructions to retrieve the source to the end
>user.
>
>This could be on a CD or a sentence in a provided manual.
>
>No reference is given to the percent of open source to proprietary
>software which must be disclosed.
>
>Also, if I am not mistaken, if you sell a system with linux on it, 
>don't you have to do the same for the OS? Lots of GPL stuff
>there.
>
>I am not defending sysmaster or anyone else, but I haven't
>seen (in this discussion) where anybody had reviewed
>the entire end user product package (outside of a hard drive).
>
>My 2cents
>
>Regards
>Greg
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