There are always ways to make sure the end customer understands who created the system whether it's a label outside or inside the case, or your contact information inside a .conf file (like the dialplan?). Or an added .gsm or .wav file thanking the customer for their business.
I can't speak to the GPL, but if you're worried about it, it may not be worth doing.
On 10/11/06, Erick Perez <
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One company approached ours and asked for an embedded solution. 4FXS, no big deal. However that company has access to a potential market were a few dozen boxes (or even more) can be sold using a special contract. We know that this company wants to have the solution built by us so he can copy it later in terms of hardware, software, etc so we are bypassed, By means of contacting the providers of the hardware and buying directly (example soekris, via,etc).
The whole point is that he knows nothing about asterisk or embedded systems and he is clearly focused on stealing all the setup we have done.
Is it ethical to create a simple program that reads something like the processor serial number, bury the program who knows where inside an init script (or even compile a C call to that binary inside asterisk) , so even if he can duplicate our box, he cannot "make it work" because something like the serial, wont match?
I ask this because we are not preventing that company to learn asterisk, embedded systems, etc and rolling their own....but, well, his intentions are so obvious.....and since everything is GPLed......
has anyone faced such situation?
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Panama Sistemas
Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos
Panama, Republica de Panama
Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780
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