[asterisk-biz] Re: G729 Replacement Codec - FREE or may necheaper than existing one.

[Michael Jerris]

No, that's not correct by my reading of the GPL.  The GPL does not
restrict your personal use of the code in any way, it may well restrict
your distribution of that code if it is derived from GPL code, or if it
is distributed with asterisk.  There is quite a bit of legal information
about what a derivative work is, but suffice to say without
extraordinary efforts, if you wrote a g729 module for asterisk, it would
be a derived work, and you would not have any legal right to distribute
it, but you could use it, assuming you had addressed all patent
licensing and other such issues.

 

Mike

 

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Joakimsen
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:38 PM
To: Justin Newman; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Re: G729 Replacement Codec - FREE or may
necheaper than existing one.

 

So even if we license from Intel the code, it is illegal to use it with
Asterisk because Asterisk is GPL? I still don't get that part....

On 9/4/06, Justin Newman <jnewman at newmantelecom.com> wrote:

Kannaiyan,

It may be helpful to read...

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-September/057110.h
tml

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+G.729+Licensing

Justin

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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:21:40 +0800
From: "Kannaiyan Natesan" <gbpnkans at gmail.com>

Hi,
    I heard of a news, that there is a replacement codec available for
g729 and accept the g729 codec data for decoding. Anyone familier with 
this? Also the good news is that it is noted that it works fine with
asterisk and the g729 encoded data.
    Anyone has the link for the free asterisk distribution which can
take unilimited channels of g729 codec, data. If there is any royalty 
need to pay, is that cheaper than the existing g729 cost?.
    I read somewhere in the net and forgot to save the url and google
did not brought me that again.

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