Sorry again Al but you are way off on this one also. sipro licenses digium who licenses end users for the digium product they are buying. It's like saying if I buy an ATA with 2 g.729 licenses can I throw it away and use the licenses with my open source codec? No way!
Al Bochter wrote: > Mike > > I understand that. > > but it states on there site and note the key words "may need" > What I want to know is if you buy 10 licenses from digum can use the > Open Souce code? > As long as you don't transcode than 10 at a time. Is that legal? > > I see the note about the IPP license > > >From what I have been told this is easier to get working than Digum's > G729 > > > Legal Stuff - Important, please read > > To use G.729 or G.723.1 _*you may need to pay a royalty fee.*_ Please > see http://www.sipro.com for details. Please note that this code is > available for you to download for education purposes only and if a > patent exists in your country for G.729 or G.723.1 then you should > contact the owner of that patent and request their permission before > executing the code. > > To distribute Intel's IPP libraries with a commercial product, you may > need to pay a once-off license fee to Intel (currently $US180). > > My patches to Intel's code are distributed free under the GPL. Most of > the code is just Intel's sample code re-arranged a little bit to work > the way Asterisk expects. Therefore, this work would not have been > possible without Intel doing 99.9% of the work. > > >Best regards, > >Al Bochter >Bochter Services >http://www.BochterServices.com/?t=Email > > > > Mike wrote: > >> Al Bochter wrote: >> >>> Mike, >>> >>> So tell me what this FREE open source G729 is >>> >>> I am told that you can use these Codecs with your Asterisk ! >>> >>> http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/ipp-codecs-g729-g723.1/ >>> >>> You can do it Freely !! >> >> >> Please read the entire page. From the link you sent: >> >> >> Why NOT G.729? >> >> There are some reasons you might /not/ want or need to use G.729. >> >> * You don't want to pay the license fees or use the codec without >> the permission of the patent holder. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --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 >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> Inbound (clean). Database: 0701-6, 01/08/2007 - 1/8/2007 3:24:08 PM >> >> >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >--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 > > _______________________________________________ --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
