[asterisk-users] G729

[Steve Underwood]

On 09/17/2009 02:52 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>
>    
>> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 06:46:13 Khaled W Chehab wrote:
>>      
>>> What g729 module should  I download ?
>>>        
>> You should download only the licensed g.729 module from Digium, after paying a
>> $10 license per concurrent user.  All other modules have various problems (GPL
>> violation or lack of paying the associated patent license).  You cannot use
>> G.729 without paying the license fee until after all associated patents expire
>> (sometime in 2014).
>>      
> ... or be in in a country that doesn't honour software patents or
> copyrights - which the OP might well be...
>
> And there is a choice if the OP wants to pay the license fees - the OP
> does not have to dwonload the Digium one, there is another, competing one
> here:
>
>     http://www.howlertech.com/products/howlets
>
> It's cheaper too.
>
> Gordon
>
>    
Where do you think he might live? Antarctica? :-)

Steve