[Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A

[Chris Stenton]

I was not thinking of producing an illegal codec.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Troy Settle" <troy at psknet.com>
To: "'Asterisk on BSD discussion'" <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A


>
> 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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