<div dir="ltr"><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">1) We do not perform any transcoding whatsoever. All recordings, and<br>
voice mail are in G729,<br>
and allow=g729 for all peers and in sip.conf. Is there anything else<br>
we need to perform "g729 passthrough". More importantly are we still<br>
liable? Given that most vendors support G729, why do some still<br>
require the need to transcode?<br></blockquote><div><br> As earlier referred following quote from their site <br><br>"DISCLAIMER: You might have to pay royalty fees to the G.729/723.1<br>
patent holders for using their algorithm"<br><br></div><div>You have to pay royalty fee for using their algorithm and it does not matter whether you are trans-coding or not however there is no restriction to pay their royalty fee under testing / evaluation environment. <br>
</div><div><br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">2) If we decide that we require to purchase licenses, can we purchase<br>
23 licenses and continue to use the open source version?<br></blockquote>
<br></div><div>I do't think there is any restriction to use open source version when you paid their roylity fee <br><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> Darryl Said<br>
<div class="im">> The real question is: is there really any choice other than Digium for the licence? Due to<br>
> the dual licensing of the asterisk code, even if you could license
the codec elsewhere, you > might be violating Digium's OSS license
when you don't but their commercial asterisk<br>
> license.<br>
<br>
</div>This only applies to the commercial versions of the codec right? We<br>
are still ok in respect to Digium's OSS license with the open source<br>
should we decide to continue using that version?<br></blockquote><br></div>Yes it is . I do't think there is confilit between GPL license and g.729 patent fee <br><br><div class="gmail_extra">Regards<br clear="all">
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><b>Tahir Almas</b><br><br>Managing Partner<br>ICT Innovations<br><a href="http://www.ictinnovations.com" target="_blank">http://www.ictinnovations.com</a><br>Leveraging open source in ICT<br>
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