<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>thank you everybody for your useful replies and so sorry to answer late.<br><br></div>i understand what i need. first of all, i wanna to use pass through g729 codec (which is free). so i go to <a href="http://asterisk.hosting.lv/">http://asterisk.hosting.lv/</a> to get g729 codec. i have freebsd 8.2 and asterisk 1.8.22 but there is no compatible codec for Xeon Intel in the list. it means that i can't use codec g729 on my system??? or can i use codec for another type of hardware for my system? anyone has any experience? <br>
<br></div>thanks in advance<br></div>SAM<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:04 PM, John Novack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnovack@stromberg-carlson.org" target="_blank">jnovack@stromberg-carlson.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Darryl Moore wrote:<br>
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Thank you Steve, and I read a bit more on the web on this subject<br>
including your own well reasoned page at<br>
<a href="http://www.soft-switch.org/patents/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.soft-switch.org/<u></u>patents/index.html</a><br>
<br>
However, despite wide acceptance of the patentability of such codecs<br>
(unfortunately), whether they are in fact software patents or not<br>
appears to be a matter of opinion. The FSF and Fedora both refer to<br>
codec patents as being software patents.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://endsoftpatents.org/2011/02/usa-patent-reform-not-enough/" target="_blank">http://endsoftpatents.org/<u></u>2011/02/usa-patent-reform-not-<u></u>enough/</a><br>
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/<u></u>Software_Patents</a><br>
<br>
A quick google search of both terms will show that there are a great<br>
many people who see codec patents as software patents, so I don't think<br>
I am alone there.<br>
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Law is ALWAYS open to interpretation, so that is not surprising.<br>
See if you can get any lawyer, and especially a patent attorney, to give you a definitive answer! You will not get one.<br>
Seldom will you ever get an "eggspurt legal opinion" Any good lawyer will tell you "maybe", or if there is any doubt don't do it!<br>
Law is not precisely measurable. No meter or O'scope to assist here.<br>
Any A**hole can sue anyone for the filing fee, and the results are up to the opinion of a judge or jury.<br>
The lawyers want it that way, so it isn't ever going to be any different.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
John Novack<br>
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