[SR-Users] Possible GPL violation by third party (4PSA)

[Matthew Costa]

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 at 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 at 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
pnow_2_5_x_modified_version_of_kamailio.

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
 
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