[Asterisk-Dev] Re: bug 4252 - increasing delay over time channels in MeetMe

[Matt Riddell]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Matt Riddell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 10 November 2005 03:38, Chih-Wei Huang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Chih-Wei Huang wrote: BTW, my G.723.1 and G.729 codec are from Intel
>>>>IPP library.
>>>>
>>>>I decided to file a report to Mantis:
>>>>http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5697 Hopefully it can be fixed
>>>>before 1.2.0 release.
>>>
>>>
>>>Due to patent issues and the legal problems associated with
>>>contributory patent infringement, we cannot do anything about any
>>>problems you're having with the G.723.1 codec (at least until the
>>>associated patents expire).
>>
>>Which is when?
>>
>>Do you really see them allowing the patents to expire?
> 
> Patents expire whether you allow them or not. It is kinda tricky for 
> g.723.1 - there are lots of patents, filed in different jurisdictions. 
> Some of them in fact have expired already (2004). I saw a statement that 
> all of them will expire by end of 2006...

Cool, so it's not like the statute of limitations where you can make changes
and start the clock again?

Any word on g729?

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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