[Asterisk-Dev] A crazy idea... Skype channel in Asterisk

[Matt Hess]

Just a thought.. why not contact skype and see if they would be 
interested in licensing it out to the asterisk community.. sort of like 
729..?


Michael Giagnocavo wrote:

>Yea, that's what they did with Blizzard's Battle Net service. Made a Linux
>server, had to reverse engineer the protocol. It was deemed illegal because
>it "stole" profits by allowing people to play without paying for Battle Net.
>I'd see the same thing here: Allowing PSTN termination without paying Skype.
>
>As far as the encryption keys, that won't be an issue. The keys have to be
>on each client somehow. So as long as we imitate their client well enough
>it'll work.
>
>As for trying some tricks ala MSN protocols, the same thing would happen:
>They can't constantly upgrade their protocol (unless they have some kind of
>micro-protocol-update inside their client) since that'd break their
>installed base. Even if they had an updater, I doubt they'd make often
>drastic changes, since that'd decrease the stability of their platform.
>
>At any rate, whoever is going to lead this project, please email me (or
>setup a site where we can coordinate).
>
>-Michael
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Florian Overkamp
>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:59 AM
>To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] A crazy idea... Skype channel in Asterisk
>
>Hi,
>
>
>On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 18:12, James Sharp wrote:
>  
>
>>The Skype protocol is proprietary.  If you build chan_skype and they 
>>get wind of it, you're looking at getting slapped with a DMCA 
>>cease-and-desist order so fast it'll make your head spin.
>>    
>>
>
>Uhm, I'm not in the USA, but if I remember all this correctly, the DMCA
>explicitly allows reverse engineering with the purpose to create an
>original work in order to achieve interoperability. I think that would
>pretty much allow it, unless patent-law is broken.
>
>Then again, IANAL.
>
>Florian
>
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