[Asterisk-biz] G.729 license future?

[Paul]

There might not be many future alternatives to Asterisk if you want 
G.729 along with open source. Digium has a license agreement that might 
not be available to newcomers.

Look at this:

http://www.sipro.com/news.php

Consider the title:

"The G.729 Consortium Updates its Licensing
Policy to Exclusively License End-Products"

and specifically these words:

"Coming into effect today, these new licensing terms will not affect any 
existing business or economic relationships and, therefore, are not 
expected to change the current market operating environment since no 
generic microprocessor chip or chipset manufacturer has sought, or been 
granted, a G.729 Consortium license to date."

So Digium is grandfathered but maybe a GPL fork of asterisk is not 
considered to be an end-product.