> > 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 some still > require the need to transcode? >
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 whether you are trans-coding or not however there is no restriction to pay their royalty fee under testing / evaluation environment. 2) If we decide that we require to purchase licenses, can we purchase > 23 licenses and continue to use the open source version? > I do't think there is any restriction to use open source version when you paid their roylity fee > Darryl Said > > The real question is: is there really any choice other than Digium for > the licence? Due to > > the dual licensing of the asterisk code, even if you could license the > codec elsewhere, you > might be violating Digium's OSS license when you > don't but their commercial asterisk > > license. > > This only applies to the commercial versions of the codec right? We > are still ok in respect to Digium's OSS license with the open source > should we decide to continue using that version? > Yes it is . I do't think there is confilit between GPL license and g.729 patent fee Regards *Tahir Almas* Managing Partner ICT Innovations http://www.ictinnovations.com Leveraging open source in ICT
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