[asterisk-biz] g729 licensing

[Steve Totaro]

Well I am looking at purchasing 672 licenses.  Digium gives a little
price break over 500 licenses, they only charge $8/each.  Somehow I
would like to see how your model could possibly help my situation rather
than helping everyone else's.
 
Steve

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: trixter aka Bret McDanel 
	Sent: Sat 2/4/2006 8:39 PM 
	To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] g729 licensing
	
	

	On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:11 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
	> Now this is excellent thinking!  I especially like the section
at then
	> end that explains some legal questions.
	> 
	
	Its not exactly a new idea, the sun commercial compiler uses a
similar
	license system (or at least did I havent used it for at least 10
years,
	but 10-15 years ago it did this).  Steam (for halflife,
counterstrike,
	etc) also do a similar thing.  Autocad has something similar.
Many
	things have a network license server for licensed material.
	
	http://www.sipro.com makes it clear that you are licensing a
channel
	(one end per license), and not a specific implementation or
other
	hardware locked thing.  As such this model is approved so long
as you
	dont exceed the total number of licensed channels.
	
	We are just trying to lower the entry cost for this technology.
	Vovida.org (cisco's open source telephony platform) has some
work on the
	Open G.729A codec, however that is only suitable for development
and
	educational purposes, as such its not suitable for many (the
license
	forbids commercial use without an actual license). 
	
	This is also an attempt to help the community, with the sharing
model by
	sharing licenses in a collective.  While licenses still have to
be
	bought, you dont need a 1:1 in a global environment (1 license
per user)
	becuase many people have idle licenses just sitting there
collecting
	dust.  This means that more people can use licenses cheaper than
if they
	had to get their own license and then not use it while they
arent on the
	phone.
	
	The other model is more for businesses that need/want a more
closed
	environment.  We give people choice and freedom :)
	
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