[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:32 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On 10/11/05 14:15 trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com said the following:
> > On a side note but vaguely related to this (licensing in general) does
> > digium charge EU patrons for the g.729 codec?  I understand that digium
> > is in the US and that it can cause them problems if they dont charge,
> 
> there may be a technical issue with that given that the codecs downloaded 
> from digium's site would need to check for the licensing information for 
> the codec. doing what you require would need two versions of the codec, and 
> digium may have a problem in ensuring that folk from the US do not download 
> the version without the check.
> 
Yes I understand that there would need to be two versions *or* digium
gives free licenses to people who can be verified in places where
software patents dont exist.  However becuase digium is in a place where
they do I bet that it would be legally impossible for them to provide
free licenses to those in say the EU (and aparently AU).


> however, i believe that folk here have made the intel implementation of 
> g.729a to work with asterisk, and you could use that where software patents 
> or the g.729 license is not required.[1]
> 
> [1] i wouldnt think it would stay this way for long, the way software 
> patent recognition is being grandfathered in by way of free trade agreements.
> 

Yeah, I am suprised that someone hasnt already published the intel code
with diff applied somewhere, but if they did google didnt find it.  I
would have thought that sometime ago (before the EU patent decision)
someone would have on a russian server.  But alas that was aparently not
the case.

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