[Asterisk-biz] Help needed convincing a big customer.

[Kevin P. Fleming]

sai wrote:

> Its your expertise that they are buying. Give them the source code - 
> what are they going to do with it? They are not a code shop.  Sign an 
> agreement saying that they cant use or sell the source code unless you 
> go bust or are unable to work with them.

Sorry, that's not an option. If you obtained Asterisk via GPL, then you 
must make the source available to anyone you distribute binaries to. If 
you have made changes to the source and those changes are in the 
binaries the customer received, then you must make the source for your 
changes available too. In addition, you _cannot_ place any additional 
restrictions on the source code you provide to the customer; both the 
original Asterisk sources and your changes are licensed under the GPL, 
and the customer can do with them as they please, including using them 
for other systems and making copies available to anyone who wants them.