[Asterisk-Dev] writing a GPL G.729?

[Race Vanderdecken]

Go Steve!

Let me put in terms Sigurd & Roy might understand.

NO, you can't violate patents because you feel it is unfair for them to
have the patent. With G.729/A the Telephone Police will find you then
beat you with great Joy in their hearts while they are doing it.

(Background noises of a small sturdy wooden box being drawn across the
floor...)

When did every legal issue in this Country, or any other God forsaken
Country for that matter, lower itself to the statement, "it's not
fair."?

The G.729 people/corporations/researchers and such spent a bunch of time
figuring it out so they deserve to have the right to charge for it.

These are the rules of the game. Don't like it? Write it yourself and
then give it away. But don't ask others for the shirt off their back
because you are left out in the cold Mr. Grasshopper.

Strange how no one is demanding free gasoline and free furniture or the
right to copy the designs, but everyone wants free software.

When software becomes totally Free, with no patent protection, there
will be no one left to write the new software. 

Consider if you will the example of a Public School education: 
	
		It is Free, but worthless.

Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken <asterisk at codetyrant.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Critchfield
Sent: 06 December 2004 11:37
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] writing a GPL G.729?

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:08 +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi
> 
> Given that the G.729 and related algorithms are not valid patents in 
> certain countries, would it be any problems related to writing a GPL 
> licenced G.729 codec to asterisk?

Did you not absorb the information we threw at you the last time you
asked this question. The patents are valid. You can not GPL a patent
encumbered piece of software regardless of your skewed view of the
world.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>

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