[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0010815]: [patch] SendFAX/ReceiveFAX

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10815 
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Reported By:                dimas
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   10815
Category:                   Applications/NewFeature
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     ready for testing
Asterisk Version:           1.4.11  
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A  
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             09-24-2007 04:57 CDT
Last Modified:              10-02-2007 10:59 CDT
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Summary:                    [patch] SendFAX/ReceiveFAX
Description: 
sendfax/receivefax applications are replacement for well known txfax/rxfax.
These are based on the same idea and also use SpanDSP GPL library by Steve
Underwood.

I hope these can be included in basic Asterisk distribution (or to addons)
just to make it easier for people obtaining fax support for Asterisk. Also,
this implementation fixes couple of bugs in applications which prevented me
using txfax/rxfax out of the box.

Notes:
* receivefax does not allow specifying %d in the file name. To me, it is
up to dialplan to form really unique file name.
* debug and answering/calling mode options are specified in a way
different from txfax/rxfax
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 dimas - 10-02-07 10:59  
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No, I do not have disclaimer from Steve at the moment. I only have his
words that "that I couldn't give a damn about app_rxfax.c and app_txfax.c,
as they are trivial pieces of code".

Also, it is unclear at the moment if the disclaimer is needed at all to
add applications to addons.

But even if we had this disclaimer, sendfax/receivefax still could not be
added to core asterisk because these applications depends on GPL library
(SpanDSP) which is not disclaimed. And without the library they are
useless. 

Issue History 
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10-02-07 10:59  dimas          Note Added: 0071324                          
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