[asterisk-users] FW: Asterisk 3rd party developed commercialsoftware sales licensing platform

[Dean Collins]

> 
> In the case of the g729 license there is a patent rights holder that
> insists on per-usage license. This usage license turns out to be a
pain
> to enforce, in practice. I consider it to be a very poor model.
>

Tzafrir,

What alternative would you suggest then?


Cheers,
Dean 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
> Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 12:57 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] FW: Asterisk 3rd party developed
commercialsoftware
> sales licensing platform
> 
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:33:49PM -0400, Dean Collins wrote:
> > Thanks Olle,
> >
> > Concentrating on your 3rd point;
> >
> > > A third item is the ability for a marketplace for addons that
doesn't
> > > require licensing from Digium. Tools that connect over manager
and/or
> > > AGI/FastAGI. I think we could be better at putting these to market
> > > than we are - internally in the community. I've seen plenty of
tools
> > > during my meetings with community people at conferences and
trainings,
> > > tools that could find resellers and distributors world-wide if we
had
> > > the internal network for it.
> >
> >
> > Can you offer some suggestions or advice about how best to license
these
> > applications?
> >
> > Is tying it to a nic address like the G729 model a good idea?
> 
> If using g729 legally wouldn't have forced me to use G729, I would
have
> skipped that annoying thing. The price is the really small part.
> 
> It is quite trivial to bypass. But what happens when you want to copy
> your setup to a different system? Do you really want to have to think
> about this silly licensing thing?
> 
> Let's say that the server is fried and I restore the backup to a
> different system. And I don't have internet connection. And sadly this
> is a weekend so no support@ is available. Do I really have to wait?
> (Or use the codec illegally?)
> 
> I don't want to have to be in such a position. This is what I meant by
> licensing overhead.
> 
> In the case of the g729 license there is a patent rights holder that
> insists on per-usage license. This usage license turns out to be a
pain
> to enforce, in practice. I consider it to be a very poor model.
> 
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