[Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A

[Troy Settle]

I know this is a non-issue for some of our friends overseas, but for those
of us in the US, we need something that's legal, which means limiting the
number of concurrent channels to whatever royalties have been paid.  Having
an open-source implementation that can be used by people under the radar of
the patent holder would be awesome, but still illegal.

IIRC, G729 licenses are $10 each from Digium, and they are keyed to the MAC
address of the Asterisk server they'll be used on.  Retriving the MAC
address is the difficult part for the guys at Digium, who are stuck in a
linux-centric world that labels every NIC as eth.

--
  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
  http://www.psknet.com
  866.477.5638
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-bsd-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-bsd-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Chris Stenton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:44 AM
> To: Asterisk on BSD discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A was Success Story
> 
> Hes not the only one looking at it! I've got a working 
> version but its a bit 
> on the slow side. I need a few days to do the in-line code 
> and assembler 
> work.
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh at alphaque.com>
> To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Success Story
> 
> 
> > On 19/10/2004 01:45 Troy Settle said the following:
> >> I think Chris Coleman @ BSDMall is trying to work with 
> Digium to get 
> >> G.729
> >> for FreeBSD.  Apparently, the problem is that the current 
> code Digium 
> >> uses
> >> does some funky linux thing to pull the MAC address from 
> eth0 to activate
> >> the license, and they don't know how to do the same thing 
> in FreeBSD.
> >
> > that's excellent. is there a web page where we could 
> register interest in 
> > this ? i'd definitely like to see more freebsd support in asterisk.
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
> > dinesh at alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
> > 
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