[asterisk-users] Asterisk CLI Banner

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Steve Edwards
> <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Richard Kenner wrote:
> >
> >> And this certainly may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.  For a
> >> (quite dated at this point) discussion of this issue from a US perspective,
> >> see
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyPubsPDF.php?facID=346&pubID=157
> >
> >
> > The publication (43 pages) is dated 1988. The DMCA (1998) and subsequent
> > legislation may have changed the landscape.
> >
> > My (ignorant) opinion -- just don't. Is it worth the effort to research? Is
> > it worth paying a lawyer to research it and give an opinion that may be
> > worth nothing until it is examined in court?
> >
> > If you want to display something custom, how about a 'wrapper' script that
> > displays a file using 'curl' before handing off to Asterisk -- easier to
> > implement, easier to maintain, no legal BS to consider.
> >
> > Or can you express your creativity by fiddling with ASTERISK_PROMPT?
> >
> If you really want to do it:
> 
> 1) create a wrapper to asterisk -r

Or use cotrib/scripts/astcli (which uses the manager interface).

> 2) pipe the welcome message to /dev/null
> 3) ???
> 4) profit
> 
> you didn't modify Asterisk.

And you still have 'core show version' and 'core show
{license|copyright}'.

#include <std/ianal.h>
#include <std/tinala.h>

The license does not require you to show that specific notice. But it
requires you to show the copyright notice in the place where the user
would expect it. The users MUST be aware of their legal right. In a GUI
program, you'd put that notice in help => about and not necessarily in
the startup banner (even if you have one).

That said, I would not go changing it unless it had caused a real
technical difficulty.

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