[Asterisk-Dev] Re: bug 4252 - increasing delay over time channels in MeetMe

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Matt Riddell wrote:

> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 November 2005 03:38, Chih-Wei Huang wrote:
> > 
> >>Chih-Wei Huang wrote: BTW, my G.723.1 and G.729 codec are from Intel
> >>IPP library.
> >>
> >>I decided to file a report to Mantis:
> >>http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5697 Hopefully it can be fixed
> >>before 1.2.0 release.
> > 
> > 
> > Due to patent issues and the legal problems associated with
> > contributory patent infringement, we cannot do anything about any
> > problems you're having with the G.723.1 codec (at least until the
> > associated patents expire).
> 
> Which is when?
> 
> Do you really see them allowing the patents to expire?
Patents expire whether you allow them or not. It is kinda tricky for 
g.723.1 - there are lots of patents, filed in different jurisdictions. 
Some of them in fact have expired already (2004). I saw a statement that 
all of them will expire by end of 2006...

-alex