Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Wieling
] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 4:28 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry! On 28/2/14 9:04 pm, Jayson Devor wrote: > That being said, will purchasing 23 licenses (one for each channel >

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 28/2/14 9:04 pm, Jayson Devor wrote: That being said, will purchasing 23 licenses (one for each channel that we use), and continue to use the open source g729 sorftware keep us legal? I know at least half a dozen people who do this so that they can more effectively balance their licence com

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Wieling
04 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry! > Correct, I didn't mention this, since I was assuming OP was talking > about getting it into production. Should have been more clear. > Sorry I

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Wieling
cussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry! On 2/28/14, Johann Steinwendtner wrote: > On 2014-02-28 14:04, Tahir Almas wrote: >> 1) We do not perform any transcoding whatsoever. All recordings, and >> voice mail are in G729, >>

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Jayson Devor
> Correct, I didn't mention this, since I was assuming OP was talking > about getting it into production. Should have been more clear. > Sorry I should clarify. We were incubated for the testing period however now will be depolying for commercial use. That being said, we do feel the need to contr

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Jayson Devor
On 2/28/14, Johann Steinwendtner wrote: > On 2014-02-28 14:04, Tahir Almas wrote: >> 1) We do not perform any transcoding whatsoever. All recordings, and >> voice mail are in G729, >> and allow=g729 for all peers and in sip.conf. Is there anything else >> we need to perform "g729 p

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Paul Belanger
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Darryl Moore wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2014 10:02 PM, "Paul Belanger" > wrote: >> >> > >> No such thing as 'free open source g729 license', if you actually read the >> site: >> > > There is regarding the copyright on the code. The fact it is also patent > encumbered

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread A J Stiles
On Friday 28 Feb 2014, Tahir Almas wrote: > As earlier referred following quote from their site > > "DISCLAIMER: You might have to pay royalty fees to the G.729/723.1 > patent holders for using their algorithm" > > You have to pay royalty fee for using their algorithm and it does not > matter wh

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Johann Steinwendtner
On 2014-02-28 14:04, Tahir Almas wrote: 1) We do not perform any transcoding whatsoever. All recordings, and voice mail are in G729, and allow=g729 for all peers and in sip.conf. Is there anything else we need to perform "g729 passthrough". More importantly are we still liable

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Tahir Almas
> > 1) We do not perform any transcoding whatsoever. All recordings, and > voice mail are in G729, > and allow=g729 for all peers and in sip.conf. Is there anything else > we need to perform "g729 passthrough". More importantly are we still > liable? Given that most vendors support G729, why do som

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Jayson Devor
Hello Everyone, Thank your for your response. There are two critical questions I would like clarified kindly: 1) We do not perform any transcoding whatsoever. All recordings, and voice mail are in G729, and allow=g729 for all peers and in sip.conf. Is there anything else we need to perform "g729

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-27 Thread Darryl Moore
On Feb 27, 2014 10:02 PM, "Paul Belanger" wrote: > > > > No such thing as 'free open source g729 license', if you actually read the site: > There is regarding the copyright on the code. The fact it is also patent encumbered is a different issue. > DISCLAIMER: You might have to pay royalty fees t

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-27 Thread Paul Belanger
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Jayson Devor wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are looking to transition our 23 channels from testing/lab into > production. During testing we used the free open source g729 license > using the instructions found here: > > http://blog.manhag.org/2010/05/installing-th

[asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-27 Thread Jayson Devor
Hello Everyone, We are looking to transition our 23 channels from testing/lab into production. During testing we used the free open source g729 license using the instructions found here: http://blog.manhag.org/2010/05/installing-the-free-g729-codec-for-asterisk/ A little more about our setup. Al