[Asterisk-Users] G.729 patent in France
Hi all, I am building an Asterisk PBX with voicemail and music on hold functions. An ISDN BRI line will also be available and G.729 IP-phones will be used. Are there patents rights applicable to France? Which licence could I use and how many ones are required (only one per phone or also for voicemail and MOH)? Regards Amaury ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 patent in France
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Amaury BOSSE wrote: Are there patents rights applicable to France? Yes, most of the world. Which licence could I use and how many ones are required (only one per phone or also for voicemail and MOH)? One per translating service (concurrent use). Digium sell them. Steve -- NetTek Ltd Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype / In stevekennedyuk / UK +442088167166 / US +13106518226 Vonage UK +442079932612 / US +13108577715 / UK mob 07775 755503 Personal Blog http://stevekennedy.blogspot.com Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 patent in France
Amaury BOSSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building an Asterisk PBX with voicemail and music on hold functions. An ISDN BRI line will also be available and G.729 IP-phones will be used. Are there patents rights applicable to France? The European Parliament recently voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The directive was supported by large monopolists such as Microsoft and would have thrown us into the same software patent minefield as the USA. The defeat of the bill means that individual EU member countries will continue to make their own decisions on what is patentable, rather than being hamstrung by the proposed EU-wide bill. Software-only patents are not valid in England and probably not in France, although that's for you to check. I understand that a limited number of software patents are valid in Italy. Software is protected by copyright, and that's enough. Ideas are free. http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 patent in France
Amaury BOSSE wrote: Hi all, I am building an Asterisk PBX with voicemail and music on hold functions. An ISDN BRI line will also be available and G.729 IP-phones will be used. Are there patents rights applicable to France? Which licence could I use and how many ones are required (only one per phone or also for voicemail and MOH)? A large percentage of the patents applicable to G.729 are held by France Telecom. Now guess whether they bothered to get those patents in France. :-) There are some software patents in the US for algorithms to speed up the computation of G.729 on a processor. I doubt those could have got through the European patent systems. The basic signal processing patents certainly have. Regards, Steve ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 patent in France
Amaury BOSSE a écrit : Hi all, I am building an Asterisk PBX with voicemail and music on hold functions. An ISDN BRI line will also be available and G.729 IP-phones will be used. Are there patents rights applicable to France? Which licence could I use and how many ones are required (only one per phone or also for voicemail and MOH)? You can buy them from Digium. It costs $10 per channel. Which means that if you buy five, asterisk will transcode at maximum 5 channels at a time. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 patent in France
Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A large percentage of the patents applicable to G.729 are held by France Telecom. Now guess whether they bothered to get those patents in France. British Telecom has a large number of patents in North America. It can't use its software-only patents in England, of course. -- _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
