1 Jul
2014
1 Jul
'14
6:44 p.m.
Hello,
we have been discussion on management groups since this morning to
understand the issue and see what can be done. However, it seems that a
link to the sources has been published in the forum pointed by the link
in the email. Perhaps that closes this specific case.
Anyhow, for sake of getting some clarifications for the future ...
Starting with the remark that none of us are lawyers, so we recommend
that everyone in a similar situation should seek professional advice,
the GPL sets the contraint of distributing the source code along with
binaries between a vendor/person (let's say entity) using GPL software
and its clients. If the binaries are made public to everyone via open
web/ftp/etc servers, my personal understanding is that source code
should be made available as well or at least upon request by interested
people. If the binaries were purchase and were accessible only via some
commercial relation, only the one that purchased the binaries is
entitled to ask for source code.
Kamailio project itself can assist by testifying it is indeed a GPLv2
software (if needed, being something public is easy to check), but I
don't think it can enforce it or get in between two foreign entities,
without any relation to the developers holding GPL copyright. Again, my
understanding.
To anyone being interested to read more, here are some links that could
be useful (thanks to the people in the management groups of the project
that pointed them to me):
- http://gpl-violations.org
- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.en.html
Also, if somebody has remarks or links to related resource to
contribute, please do it, they can be valuable for everyone in the
community.
We hope that everyone out there will play honest and follow GPL rules,
so it will be no need for complex actions by any of the users of
Kamailio project. It is an open collaboration environment and we aim for
a fair ecosystem.
Cheers,
Daniel
On 01/07/14 03:22, Matthew Costa wrote:
4PSA develop and sell a software suite called VoipNow
Professional
(version 2.5) which, amongst other things, includes it's own packaged copy
of Kamailio. This version is derived from Kamailio version 1.5.4.
The software installs a binary release from a 4PSA repository. The RPM
information contains the following:
# rpm -qi voipnow-kamailio-1.5.4-130312.41.rhel5
Name : voipnow-kamailio Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.5.4 Vendor: Rack-Soft, Inc
<devel(a)4psa.com>
Release : 130312.41.rhel5 Build Date: Tue 12 Mar 2013
18:31:30 EST
Install Date: Sun 02 Feb 2014 00:15:14 EST Build Host:
rhel5-1.64b.build.4psa.ro
Group : System Environment/Daemons Source RPM:
voipnow-kamailio-1.5.4-130312.41.rhel5.src.rpm
Size : 6599403 License: GPL
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Tue 12 Mar 2013 18:35:28 EST, Key ID
42ba8c472f75de11
Packager : Rack-Soft, Inc <devel(a)4psa.com>
URL : http://kamailio.org/
Summary : Kamailio, a very fast and flexible SIP Proxy
I've made a direct request to 4PSA for the source code for this package,
only to be told they don't release their sources. The request, and
subsequent response, can be found at
http://my.4psa.com/4psa/topics/where_can_i_find_the_source_code_for_the_voi…
.
For those interested, the following packages are included with VoipNow
which are derived from GPL software. There is no source available for any
of these from the vendor.
# rpm -qa |grep voipnow
voipnow-spandsp-0.0.6-100708.10.rhel5
voipnow-asterisk-1.6.1.20-130312.07.rhel5
voipnow-asterisk-addons-1.6.1-130131.30.rhel5
voipnow-php-2.5.5-130312.11.rhel5
voipnow-sox-14.3.1-100723.30.rhel5
voipnow-asterisk-sounds-1.4.22-100723.25.rhel5
voipnow-kamailio-1.5.4-130312.41.rhel5
voipnow-ejabberd-2.1.4-100723.29.rhel5
voipnow-asterisk-debuginfo-1.6.1.20-120417.09.rhel5
voipnow-asterisk-extra-2.5.5-130312.11.rhel5
My requests are falling on deaf ears. Does anybody know how to make them
take this matter seriously?
Cheers,
Matthew Costa
Infrastructure Manager
<http://www.greenlight-itc.com/>
Suite 703, Level 7
815 Pacific Highway Chatswood 2067
tel: 02 8412 0000 fax: 02 8412 0001
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