Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > >> Now for the ITUs site, I found the data set that has the '3 >> diskettes' (their words) in the zip file (pdf or word) however that is >> 82 swiss francs, does anyone have a copy that doesnt require such >> payment (legally of course)? > > > The license under which you obtain that code from the ITU does not > allow redistribution in any form for any purpose. > >> I am thinking of making this a AUG project in the near future to come up >> with a cheaper alternative. From what I am reading on similar ITU >> codecs its under $1 per unit licensing to the ITU so it could be a lot >> cheaper and still provide some money for the Sac AUG to get supplies for >> its activities (Sac AUG is not for profit 100% volunteer so no >> individual would actually profit). The people saying that thought it >> was about $0.50 per seat royalty. Maybe when I have time I will contact >> the ITU to see what their fee is. > > > 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 :-)
Kevin, I gave those policy changes a quick read a few months ago. I get the impression that Digium has a definite "grandfathered" advantage. It looks to me like they don't want such "general purpose" licensing in the future. _______________________________________________ --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
