[Asterisk-Dev] Real UniqueIDs (GUID/UUID) for CDRs

[Steve Kann]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

>On Wednesday 30 March 2005 14:41, Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
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>>A bit ago, there was a conversation about having GUIDs/UUIDs in CDRs.
>>Something that'll be guaranteed unique even with a large farm of
>>Asterisk servers busily generating CDRs.
>>
>>Instead of making up an algorithm, I just added support for uuids
>>(libuuid), which bases off the MAC address and some other things, and
>>gives a guarantee of uniqueness for a high-volume environment.
>>
>>There's a patch to the core CDR code, plus I made cdr_csv support it
>>as well. To anyone interested, please add on patches for other CDR
>>modules (I'm not familiar with them at all).
>>
>>http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0003780
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>libuuid is licensed under GPL, which is incompatible with the Asterisk
>license, unless you can convince Digium to make another license
>exception for libuuid.  Other than that, you'll also have to write your
>own builtin implementation of uuid_generate_time(), as *BSD does not
>contain an implementation of uuid_generate_time() either.
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>

Digium cannot make an exception for libuuid; the libuuid people would 
need to make an exception for asterisk, or more specifically, the 
GPL-incompatible parts of asterisk, including iLBC and stuff like this.

-SteveK