On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:47:36AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote: > Klaus Darilion wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I wonder how you deal with AMR license restrictions - does Wengo pays > > for the AMR license or is it the users task to get an AMR license? > > Hello, > > WengoPhone is developed in Europe, so we don't have any software patents here. > If the user lives in a country which has software patents like the USA, the > user needs a license to use WengoPhone. > > This is a problem we should discuss. > > http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr states: > > AMR codecs incorporate several patents, held by Ericsson, Universite de > Sherbrooke (VoiceAge) and Nokia. VoiceAge claims to provide patent portfolio > for AMR codecs. Depending on law in your country, manufacturers and developers > may need to get a license. Because it is a shared library, you may need a > special contract for each one application, which links against this library, > directly or indirectly. >
What about linux distributions? May be debian will have some problems distributing AMR codec? Ciao -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Wengophone-devel mailing list Wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com http://dev.openwengo.com/mailman/listinfo/wengophone-devel
