[advocacy] Proposed Open Source Speech Codec

[Kristoff Bonne]

Greetings,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Rowe wrote:
> > ohphone (the voip-client from the openh323 project,
> > http://www.openh323.org/) has an option "Set G.723.1 as preferred codec".
> Yes, it did have until recently - it used the Microsoft software G723.1 codec
> under the Win32 version of ohphone.  I just spoke with the OpenH323 gentlemen
> today - they have decided that using the MS codec in ohphone was probably in
> breach of the MS license and have removed it from the latest versions.....
OK. Let me see if I understand this.

Microsoft has a patent on G.723.1; and the license requires it to run on
a microsoft platform.
Am I correct?
Is this a ITU-specification. Doesn't the ITU require 'fair use' and a
'fair price' of everbody who has patents on technology that is part of a
ITU-specification?

Anycase, shouldn't this be for the 'openh323' mailing-list as this is more
a 'voip' thing?

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

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