[Asterisk-Users] Free g.729.1 implementation

[Steve Underwood]

Hi Chris,

What on earth are you refering to?

Regards,
Steve


Chris Albertson wrote:

>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.
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>--- Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
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>>Witold Krecicki wrote:
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>>>1st. - I'm from Poland, we don't have (yet, and hopefully forever)
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>>software 
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>>>patents. 
>>>Is there any free g.729.1 implementation for asterisk? I want to use
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>>it for my 
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>>>private use (dialing into inet->PSTN gateway), and I don't want
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>>(now) to buy 
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>>>codec, as I don't know if I will be using this service in future
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>>(now I just 
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>>>want to test it). Any solutions? Maybe even free-15day-trial of
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>>g.729.1 
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>>>codec?
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>>There *are* no software patents on G.729. However, there are a lot of
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>>signal processing patents, and they are applicable everywhere. A lot
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>>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.
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>>Regards,
>>Steve
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