trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:27 -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > >>The ITU is not involved in licensing or patent indemnification; they are >>non-profit standards body. The G.729 patent holders have given Sipro the >>task of managing their patent portfolio licensing, so that is who you >>would need to contact. Sipro recently changed their licensing policies, >>and those changes made the barrier to entry substantially higher. You >>are welcome to talk to them, of course :-) > > > http://www.sipro.com/news.php > MONTREAL, CANADA, July 6, 2005. The G.729 Consortium today announced > that it has changed its licensing policy and will now offer licenses to > use the G.729 patented technology to end-product manufacturers only. > Qualifying end-products would typically include access devices, > audio/video conferencing equipment, call center equipment, IP phones, > IP/PBXs, media gateways, etc. > > makes it slightly harder ... not impossible but slightly harder.
I think he was referring to the new pricing structure, which is significantly higher than $10 if you only require 1 channel. -- Cheers, Matt Riddell _______________________________________________ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://freevoip.gedameurope.com (Free Asterisk Voip Community) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
