[Freeswitch-users] open g729

[Steven Ayre]

Funny you mention it, but MP3 does have several patents covering aspects of
it that expire between 2007 (fine) and 2017 (not so fine). There have been
various companies at various times that have claimed licenses are required
to encode/decode it. Fraunhofer Institute being a good example - they earned
100million euros in 2005 from mp3 licenses. In1998 they sent a lot of
letters out to developers of software using mp3 stating that they needed a
licence.

I guess the difference from G729 is that a) enough people in the general
public use it and want to continue using it and b) the patent holders have
declined to enforce license fees on free/foss software, only focussing on
commerical software, so there's plenty of stuff around that can use it
without worrying too much about the patents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues

-Steve

On 30 January 2011 18:46, Madovsky <infos at madovsky.org> wrote:

> Imagine MP3 with the same licence of G729...
> let's put all the world in the jail !!! :D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Madovsky" <infos at madovsky.org>
> To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] open g729
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>
> > it's companies that create
> > private licence for public use
> > you need to put in jail....
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Meftah Tayeb" <tayeb.meftah at gmail.com>
> > To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> > Cc: "Gustavo Espeche" <gustavo.espeche at upper-soft.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] open g729
> >
> >
> > do it and end up in jail.
> > Le 30/01/2011 00:23, Gustavo Espeche a écrit :
> >> Hello,
> >>          some one can compile open g729 to work with freeswitch?
> >>          http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/ipp-codecs-g729-g723.1/
> >>
> >>          i appreciate a lot if some one has some experience in it.
> >>          Best Regards.
> >>
> >>          Gustavo Espeche
> >>          www.easyipcall.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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