David Hyde wrote: > I have this situation here where my company's phone service provider > keeps saying they have created a "custom, proprietary build" of > FreePBX to the point that they won't hardly admit they run FreePBX at > all.
Something like this? <http://www.freepbx.org/custom-oem-program> > They originally tried to sell the execs on the idea that they > had designed this entire phone system from scratch, when truthfully, > they are running an outdated version of stock FreePBX. Absolutely no > custom building has occurred here. Is there any protection for this > sort of thing? Can a company legally get away with calling a GPLed > program their own proprietary program? The law protects the copyright holder from having done this to his software against his will. The copyright holder could pursue this, if he wanted to. Regards, Clemens
