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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's a difference between a copyright which is
you legally saying that its yours and some sort of copy prevention. That's
saying you couldn't store anything GPL on anything encrypted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the man wants to do it, let the man do it.
There are plenty of other places his competitors could copy something similar
from.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>----<BR>Mike Hammett<BR>Intelligent Computing Solutions<BR><A
href="http://www.ics-il.com">http://www.ics-il.com</A></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mdunkin@innflux.com href="mailto:mdunkin@innflux.com">Matt Dunkin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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Asterisk Discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [asterisk-biz] Copy protect
your Asterisk Box</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I think one of the first people to respond hit this right on
the head... Asterisk is GPL and you cannot copyright something that is GPL
however you can copyright your configuration files and gui. I would suggest
writing your gui in something that can be compiled and requires a unique
license code (that is compiled from something unique on the pbx appliance,
like the serial number on the hard drive) for operation. Even then you are
only eliminating the average user as someone will eventually figure out how to
hack it.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Matt Dunkin<BR><BR><BR><BR>Paul wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid458B022E.3080104@9ux.com type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Use an encrypted file system. Store the crypto key in a flash memory
device. Enclose everything in a thick steel case that is welded shut.
Add some switches to detect case intrusion and immediately erase the
flash device that stores the crypto keys.
C F wrote:
</PRE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">While you at it, also make sure that whenever you are by a client,
modify their hosts file to redirect asterisk.org, digium.com, and
voip-info.org to your own website.
What makes you think that they can't go to the above websites after
you copy protect your box?
And BTW, even after copy protecting, how hard is it to clone an
offline HDD?
On 12/21/06, Stephen Arulraj <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:sa@solomonstar.com"><sa@solomonstar.com></A> wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Anybody has any idea how to protect your Linux box with a perfectly
running asterisk in it? I live in China and when I put together one and
sell it, it's likely to get copied by someone else and soon you see
clones appearing all over. How about a dongle of somesort?
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