[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Cirelle Enterprises]

I didn't see anything like that on their website...

Is there something written somewhere that they say this?

besides, I read all of these posts

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Underwood" <steveu at coppice.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation


| 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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