Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:38 am Post subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A
I know this is a non-issue for some of our friends overseas, but for those
of us in the US, we need something that's legal, which means limiting the
number of concurrent channels to whatever royalties have been paid. Having
an open-source implementation that can be used by people under the radar of
the patent holder would be awesome, but still illegal.
IIRC, G729 licenses are $10 each from Digium, and they are keyed to the MAC
address of the Asterisk server they'll be used on. Retriving the MAC
address is the difficult part for the guys at Digium, who are stuck in a
linux-centric world that labels every NIC as eth.
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From: asterisk-bsd-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-bsd-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
Chris Stenton
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:44 AM
To: Asterisk on BSD discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A was Success Story
Hes not the only one looking at it! I've got a working
version but its a bit
on the slow side. I need a few days to do the in-line code
and assembler
work.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Success Story
> On 19/10/2004 01:45 Troy Settle said the following:
>> I think Chris Coleman @ BSDMall is trying to work with
Digium to get
>> G.729
>> for FreeBSD. Apparently, the problem is that the current
code Digium
>> uses
>> does some funky linux thing to pull the MAC address from
eth0 to activate
>> the license, and they don't know how to do the same thing
in FreeBSD.
>
> that's excellent. is there a web page where we could
register interest in
> this ? i'd definitely like to see more freebsd support in asterisk.
>
> --
> Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven."
> dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A
I was not thinking of producing an illegal codec.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com>
To: "'Asterisk on BSD discussion'" <asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A
Quote:
I know this is a non-issue for some of our friends overseas, but for those
of us in the US, we need something that's legal, which means limiting the
number of concurrent channels to whatever royalties have been paid.
Having
an open-source implementation that can be used by people under the radar
of
the patent holder would be awesome, but still illegal.
IIRC, G729 licenses are $10 each from Digium, and they are keyed to the
MAC
address of the Asterisk server they'll be used on. Retriving the MAC
address is the difficult part for the guys at Digium, who are stuck in a
linux-centric world that labels every NIC as eth.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-bsd-bounces@lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-bsd-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> Chris Stenton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:44 AM
> To: Asterisk on BSD discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A was Success Story
>
> Hes not the only one looking at it! I've got a working
> version but its a bit
> on the slow side. I need a few days to do the in-line code
> and assembler
> work.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com>
> To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Success Story
>
>
> > On 19/10/2004 01:45 Troy Settle said the following:
> >> I think Chris Coleman @ BSDMall is trying to work with
> Digium to get
> >> G.729
> >> for FreeBSD. Apparently, the problem is that the current
> code Digium
> >> uses
> >> does some funky linux thing to pull the MAC address from
> eth0 to activate
> >> the license, and they don't know how to do the same thing
> in FreeBSD.
> >
> > that's excellent. is there a web page where we could
> register interest in
> > this ? i'd definitely like to see more freebsd support in asterisk.
> >
> > --
> > Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven."
> > dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/
> >
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:09 am Post subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Re: G729A
On 20/10/2004 01:38 Troy Settle said the following:
Quote:
IIRC, G729 licenses are $10 each from Digium, and they are keyed to the MAC
address of the Asterisk server they'll be used on. Retriving the MAC
address is the difficult part for the guys at Digium, who are stuck in a
linux-centric world that labels every NIC as eth.
if it's just a matter of pulling all known ethernet interfaces and
returning the mac address of each, i could easily whip up that
functionality for freebsd and the digium chaps could use that. let's not
have something as trivial as discovering the list of ethernet interfaces
stop g.729 from being ported to freebsd.
--
Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/
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