[Asterisk-Users] G729 codec for asterisk

[Adam Hart]

Kevin Walsh wrote:

> brian [brian at bkw.org] wrote:
> 
>>>I've seen that licenses are purchased on a per-channel basis. Could we
>>>make some sort of agreement on having a no-limit channel license? Even,
>>>we would like to have the possibility of installing it on how many
>>>machines we wish to do.
>>>
>>
>>No you MUST pay per channel because the patent holders require that.  The
>>patent holders would !@#$ kittens if you had no port limit or any type of
>>control on it.  That's why the control and registration processes are in
>>place to comply with the patent holders requirements.  So your request
>>translates into "I want something for nothing".
>>
> 
> I see it as the patent holders who want something for nothing.
> Haven't they been paid enough millions to justify that tiny amount
> of work yet?
> 

CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction) and (more specifically) ACELP was 
a revolutionary change in encoding of voice, it ain't a 'tiny amount of 
work'.

-Adam