[asterisk-biz] g729 licensing

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:27 -0500, Sergey Kuznetsov wrote: 
> Bret,
> 
> Is this possible to have some kind of API, which allows to enable using 
> of G.729 licenses for different platforms?
> 
Yes, that is what we are doing now, we just havent opened it yet.  The
whole idea is that the license not be tied to a specific platform.  We
also have had queries from 2 other open source telephony platforms
regarding this.  The other two that I know of may also be interested.  

The only sad thing for me is that I have 19 licenses in hardware at my
house, but I cant roll those licenses in :(  Almost every ATA, voip
phone, etc I have has multiple and I have several such devices just
sitting collecting dust.


> When I was talking to Diana Cionou ( YaTE girl ), I wanted something 
> like that. I am not using YaTE because of
> lacking G.729 codec support even if I like the code they've done.
> 
That is one I was unaware of, there certainly can be something that can
be implemented to make this work at some point.  And the best part is
that if you have a network license server it would be able to use all
these different products at the same time off the same license pool,
with the max concurrent channels being the only limitation - well that
and we were advised to not release the code, even though its out there
(ciscos open G729A project for example - non commercial use only).  But
if someone else wants to make something compatible and release their
code, more power to them.  We have no problems working with the open
source community on this issue.

We arent selling software per se, we are selling licenses to G.729, as
such we dont care what it works with, open or closed, free or
commercial.  The point is interopability, let people communicate over
what they want, freedom and choice. 


> I like the code from FreeSwitch, but again if I cannot use G.729, I 
> stuck with Asterisk.
> 
FreeSwitch.org doesnt do nearly as much as asterisk at this moment.
They are still working on the core, and applications will need that core
to function, as such freeswitch isnt really usable on the same level for
all things like asterisk.  But then again freeswitch did start last
november or something so its still quite new.  This is one of the open
source projects we are working with to provide G.729 support.

This thread is however starting to get off asterisk a bit, while this
list isnt 100% asterisk all the time, I am thinking that more
conversations about anything non-asterisk on this topic should be left
elsewhere.  But who am I to say.  For those that agree with me I have a
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