[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Bruce Ferrell]

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:46 +1300, Matt Riddell wrote:
> 
>>Eh?!
>>
>>So you think that France Telecom hasn't assigned SipPro to handle the
>>licencing for Europe?
>>
> 
> 
> What specifically are they gonna license?  That specific code or the
> g.729 codec itself?  Were software patents in the EU recently voted to
> be invalid?  That means that they can license a specific bit of code but
> not the method for that code, which means that a 3rd party can write
> their own g.729 codec and release that without paying the per seat
> patent fee.
> 
> Unless that was just a dream I had a few months ago, which is just as
> likely.
> 

It's not the code itself which is patented... It's the G.729 algorithms 
   so any implementation of them requires a license.