This whole argument is moot because there IS a free g.729 implementation. Actually it is a zero cost license to the source code. Exactly what was asked for.
--- Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Witold Krecicki wrote: > > >1st. - I'm from Poland, we don't have (yet, and hopefully forever) > software > >patents. > >Is there any free g.729.1 implementation for asterisk? I want to use > it for my > >private use (dialing into inet->PSTN gateway), and I don't want > (now) to buy > >codec, as I don't know if I will be using this service in future > (now I just > >want to test it). Any solutions? Maybe even free-15day-trial of > g.729.1 > >codec? > > > > > There *are* no software patents on G.729. However, there are a lot of > > signal processing patents, and they are applicable everywhere. A lot > of > people seem to have the strange idea that implementing a patented > techique on a CPU, instead of some other hardware, suddenly makes it > not > a patent issue in many countries. WRONG! As long as the original > patent > was not so narrow that is was only claimed to apply to a very > specific > realisation of the technique, a software implementation is just as > patent encumbered as any other. > > Regards, > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ===== Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
