G729
I am sure Digium would not prefer to
acknowledge this, but the phenomenal growth of Asterisk is due to the aavailability of a free G729 codec compiled and distributed free by Arkadi Shislov.
I am sure Digium would not prefer to
acknowledge this, but the phenomenal growth of Asterisk is due to the aavailability of a free G729 codec compiled and distributed free by Arkadi Shislov.
4 thoughts on - G729
I’m not a software pirate, I doubt that most telephony providers are either.
20.07.2018 23:35, John Kiniston пишет:
Once again- patent is expired, g729 algorithm is now free. You spent you money to wrong place 🙂
Hmmm, again, this conversation has just faded out. I wondered why no response from Digium?
So I found this discussion –
https://community.asterisk.org/t/why-does-g729-still-require-licensing/71920/8
– seems very clear that G729 is patent free, but still no response from Digium.
Also, the link to the “definitely royalty free” version was removed.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there must be a valid reason.
And I’m not at all against Digium making money. But this whole 729 thing is a mystery without any official feedback…
Not an official statement from Digium, but at the top of that thread, it says it all:
“david551
Sep ’17
It still need copyright licensing.
You will need to find an open source implementation that is not based on code with commercial use restrictions. The allegedly open source implementation that was around whilst the patent was live actually had a void licence, because the purported licence was GPL, but it contained code identified by its upstream supplier as not for commercial use, invalidating the GPL.
If you want a royalty free G.729, you need to write it yourself, form the specification, not from the existing sample code.”
Doug
—