----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristian Kielhofner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 6:47 AM Subject: [Astlinux-users] uClibc and g729
[...] > g729a is a > patented codec that requires royalties to the patent holders to use. > Digium has done all of this work for the benefit of the Asterisk > community. Unfortunately, they are not able to provide the source code > for this codec (for obvious reasons). I don't understand why Digium has to stick to this silly copy-protected thing, when there is another well-known implementation of G.729 licensed for noncommercial use (and available for binary download, which may or may not infringe on the licensing terms, from a site in Latvia). At the end of the day, if someone want to cheat using G.729 in a commercial environment without paying royalties on the algorithm, will use that other implementation ignoring Digium's: so what's the point? The only end result is unnecessary grief for legitimate users... Cheers -- Enzo P.S. And I'm not even sure if asking for royalties on a software patent has any legal standing outside the US: hasn't the European Parliament, last year, rejected a bill that sought to introduce software patents? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/060524/152/gchum.html says that also the EU Commission (i.e., the Cabinet) has now adopted the same position. _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
