On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:51:03AM -0500, Al Bochter wrote: > What about the free open source G729
There's no such thing ... g.729 (as per the ITU specification) is patent encumbered. Anyone USING the codec has to pay a license to the patent holders. Digium have negotiated a bulk-buying agreement and can sub-license (or relicense - however they've worded their agreement) the codec to end users. The same is true for several other codecs like AMR etc. even though there are open source implementations of them. MP3 is also patent encumbered, but since so many people were using it they changed the licensing so that "freeware" players could continue giving away the implementation. Any commercial software (or hardware) has to pay license fees (for encoding or decoding). Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44-(0)7775 755503 UK +44-(0)20 79932612 / US +1-(310)8577715 / Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo/Mac stevekennedyuk / MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
