----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristian Kielhofner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:49 PM
[...] >> 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. > > Enzo, > > I usually don't involve myself in political/legal issues, but... > > Usually (at least in my experience in the US) companies are more than > willing to pay for licenses that they don't need, are unnecessary, or > just plain stupid just to make sure it looks like they are trying. > > Call it cheap insurance or CYA (cover your a--), either way it's a > reality! Well, that's what I say: companies which should comply probably will without compulsion. So what's the point of such enforced restrictions? Also because that arrangement confusingly mixes two totally different IP issues: the various patents on G.729, of which Sipro is the present licensing provider on behalf of France Telecom and a bunch of other patent holders, and the copyright on the implementation, that Digium chose to protect by keeping the source code closed: much as VoiceAge did for its Win32 object library, but, unlike the latter, adding an annoying registration procedure... Cheers -- Enzo _______________________________________________ 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]
