On Sunday 13 November 2005 15:19, Matt Riddell wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Matt Riddell wrote: > >>Tilghman Lesher wrote: > >>>On Thursday 10 November 2005 03:38, Chih-Wei Huang wrote: > >>>>Chih-Wei Huang wrote: BTW, my G.723.1 and G.729 codec are from > >>>> Intel IPP library. > >>>> > >>>>I decided to file a report to Mantis: > >>>>http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5697 Hopefully it can be > >>>> fixed before 1.2.0 release. > >>> > >>>Due to patent issues and the legal problems associated with > >>>contributory patent infringement, we cannot do anything about > >>> any problems you're having with the G.723.1 codec (at least > >>> until the associated patents expire). > >> > >>Which is when? > >> > >>Do you really see them allowing the patents to expire? > > > > Patents expire whether you allow them or not. It is kinda tricky > > for g.723.1 - there are lots of patents, filed in different > > jurisdictions. Some of them in fact have expired already (2004). > > I saw a statement that all of them will expire by end of 2006... > > Cool, so it's not like the statute of limitations where you can > make changes and start the clock again?
The ITU would need to approve any such change to the standard. Note that G.723.1 is already a revision, though -- the patents on the original G.723 codec have already expired. > Any word on g729? 5,444,816 - expires September 9th, 2012 That would appear to be the last one, but again, IANAL. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
