On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:32 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > On 10/11/05 14:15 trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com said the following: > > On a side note but vaguely related to this (licensing in general) does > > digium charge EU patrons for the g.729 codec? I understand that digium > > is in the US and that it can cause them problems if they dont charge, > > there may be a technical issue with that given that the codecs downloaded > from digium's site would need to check for the licensing information for > the codec. doing what you require would need two versions of the codec, and > digium may have a problem in ensuring that folk from the US do not download > the version without the check. > Yes I understand that there would need to be two versions *or* digium gives free licenses to people who can be verified in places where software patents dont exist. However becuase digium is in a place where they do I bet that it would be legally impossible for them to provide free licenses to those in say the EU (and aparently AU).
> however, i believe that folk here have made the intel implementation of > g.729a to work with asterisk, and you could use that where software patents > or the g.729 license is not required.[1] > > [1] i wouldnt think it would stay this way for long, the way software > patent recognition is being grandfathered in by way of free trade agreements. > Yeah, I am suprised that someone hasnt already published the intel code with diff applied somewhere, but if they did google didnt find it. I would have thought that sometime ago (before the EU patent decision) someone would have on a russian server. But alas that was aparently not the case. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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