Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-28 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Joseph wrote: Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? In some places IAX is refereed as open protocol. How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? Since the source code is available to anyone and GPL'ed it is an open protocol. However it's not a standard and there is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-28 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:33 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Joseph wrote: Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? In some places IAX is refereed as open protocol. How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? Since the source code is available to anyone and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-28 Thread Julio Arruda
Stefan de Konink wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Joseph wrote: How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? If the protocol is fully documentated and this documententation is available to anyone you can speak of a open protocol. It is not an open 'standard', because it is only supported by Digium,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-28 Thread Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
Julio Arruda wrote: But there are royalties or something like that ? I understand that proprietary protocols CAN be published, but what make them proprietary is the requiremenf or royalties or at least a 'ok' from the owner ? Obviously IAX/IAX2 does not and should not require licensing fees. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Joseph wrote: How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? If the protocol is fully documentated and this documententation is available to anyone you can speak of a open protocol. It is not an open 'standard', because it is only supported by Digium, thus proprietary.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Marc Storck
IAX is an abbreviation for Inter Asterisk Exchange. So IAX was a proprietary protocol for interconnecting Asterisk servers, it was only used with 2 asterisk servers. IAX has always been open for the community. So some may say it's proprietary, while it is open. At the current time, the IAX

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Steve Underwood
Joseph wrote: Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? In some places IAX is refereed as open protocol. How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? Proprietary means it came from a proprietor - Digium in this case. This is a completely unrelated issue to whether it is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Steve Kann
Stefan de Konink wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Joseph wrote: How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? If the protocol is fully documentated and this documententation is available to anyone you can speak of a open protocol. It is not an open 'standard', because it is only supported by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Joseph
How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? Proprietary means it came from a proprietor - Digium in this case. This is a completely unrelated issue to whether it is open. Marketing departments try to confuse the issues. :-) So if the protocol is not encumbered by any patent or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Jonathan
Joseph wrote: How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? Proprietary means it came from a proprietor - Digium in this case. This is a completely unrelated issue to whether it is open. Marketing departments try to confuse the issues. :-) Even WIKI is confusing the cause calling

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Marc Storck
How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? Proprietary means it came from a proprietor - Digium in this case. This is a completely unrelated issue to whether it is open. Marketing departments try to confuse the issues. :-) So if the protocol is not encumbered by any patent or copyright

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Joseph
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20protocols I think that should be corrected! Happy now? :) Jonathan / denon Much better :-) (thank you!) -- #Joseph ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX aproprietary protocol

2005-04-27 Thread Adam Hart
Steve Kann wrote: Something *proprietary* is something exclusively owned by someone nobody owns the IAX2 protocol. Although, Digium have trademarked IAX ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com