Sysmaster is a plague of IP theft of Free software and GPL violations. GnuGK is not the only Free software codebase they've appropriated. If you can get your hands on demos or trials, you will have a field day counting up all the violations you'll find by analyzing logs, interfaces, config files, output, functionality, etc., as you compare each component with a GPL (or equivalent) version. I don't believe Sysmaster has ever developed one single piece of software themselves without misappropriating a complete, or nearly complete, GPL (or equivalent) project. To top the cake, they don't even include a notice of GPL with their stuff. All of this, of course, runs over a version of Linux they claim, "has proprietary extensions". Just to whet your appetite, here is the output from the telnet port of the gnugk and Sysmaster gatekeepers: ===== gnugk ===== Version: Gatekeeper(GNU) Version(2.0.7) Ext(pthreads=1,acct=1,radius=1,mysql=1,ldap=0) Build(Jan 17 2004, 17:08:33) Sys(Linux i686 2.4.20-28.9) GkStatus: Version(1.0) Ext() Toolkit: Version(1.0) Ext(basic) Startup: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 20:35:45 -0500 Running: 0 days 00:01:41; =========== ===== Sysmaster ====== Version: Gatekeeper(VoiceMaster) Version(2.0.2) Ext(pthreads=1) Build(Dec 5 2003, 11:13:04) Sys(Linux i686 2.4.22-VM) GkStatus: Version(1.0) Ext() Toolkit: Version(1.0) Ext(basic) Startup: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:21:48 -0500 Running: 0 days 03:14:58; ======== They also cripple certain features and ask for exhorbitant per-unit licensing fees to activate them (in the thousands per "module"), such as radius support. Even the .ini files are identical. It gets me upset, as a GPL developer, to see my hard work being stolen and claimed as proprietary achievement by someone else. Articles like these where a company steals GPL and equivalent Free software and claims they "created" them are infuriating: http://tinyurl.com/6mhp6 http://www.eetimes.com/press_releases/prnewswire/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X219253&CompanyId=2 > I recently talked to a lawyer about the possibility > of enforcing the GPL in court if need be. His > feedback was quite positive and he has already won > cases for the netfilter/iptables project here in > Germany. But for now he is only taking cases where > German companies or distributors are involved. > > If anybody is interested in going against GPL > violations in other parts of the world, please get > in contact with me. > > Regards, > Jan > Javier Escobar wrote: >> For any of you needing H.450 supplementary services in >> gnugk, note that there is a commercial company that >> has forked this project called Sysmaster >> (http://www.sysmaster.com). They have implemented >> H.450 and other features. >> >> Their H.323 gatekeeper is a fork of this project and >> this has been confirmed by hands on. This project is >> released under GPL so they are obliged to make >> available their sources. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________________ List: Openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8549 Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/
