[Asterisk-Users] Free g.729.1 implementation

[Chris Albertson]

This whole argument is moot because there IS a free g.729
implementation.  Actually it is a zero cost license to the
source code.  Exactly what was asked for.


--- Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
> Witold Krecicki wrote:
> 
> >1st. - I'm from Poland, we don't have (yet, and hopefully forever)
> software 
> >patents. 
> >Is there any free g.729.1 implementation for asterisk? I want to use
> it for my 
> >private use (dialing into inet->PSTN gateway), and I don't want
> (now) to buy 
> >codec, as I don't know if I will be using this service in future
> (now I just 
> >want to test it). Any solutions? Maybe even free-15day-trial of
> g.729.1 
> >codec?
> >  
> >
> There *are* no software patents on G.729. However, there are a lot of
> 
> signal processing patents, and they are applicable everywhere. A lot
> of 
> people seem to have the strange idea that implementing a patented 
> techique on a CPU, instead of some other hardware, suddenly makes it
> not 
> a patent issue in many countries. WRONG! As long as the original
> patent 
> was not so narrow that is was only claimed to apply to a very
> specific 
> realisation of the technique, a software implementation is just as 
> patent encumbered as any other.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> 
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