[Asterisk-Dev] asterisk 1.2 g729 compile errors

[Daniel Pocock]

>Patents are not the issue here, at all.
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I thought they were - otherwise, everyone would be running G.729 now.  
The Intel code is not licensed the as restrictively as the ITU sample 
code.  It also performs much better.

>The issue is that these 'alternative' G.729 codecs for Asterisk involve
>the usage of code that is _not_ licensed for commercial use, nor do the
>recipients of the code have the right to redistribute it in any form at
>all (source or binary). In fact, the sources of that code specifically
>restrict its use to academic and research purposes (since it is a
>'reference implementation' to be used for comparison and
>interoperability testing with your own code).
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I've just checked Intel's web site, and:

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/perflib/ipp/219980.htm

"Subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Intel 
grants to you a non-exclusive, non-assignable copyright license to 
distribute (except under an Evaluation License as specified below) the 
Redistributables and Sample Source, or any portions thereof, as part of 
the product or application you developed using the Materials."

Incidentally, Intel did write to me after I published this code - and 
they sent me a free copy of their IPP book.  So I guess they don't feel 
that I'm violating their license.

That said, I understand people don't want to spend all day discussing 
this, but please do provide some evidence when posting criticisms of 
other peoples work.  (now I'm going to go and find my hard hat)