[sldev] Re: Vote for voice protocol documentation

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:01 +0000, Matthew Dowd wrote:
> the codec available under a royalty free license - is there any
> obstacle (apart from doing the coding) to a third party stack

I didn't say "royalty free", I said "irrevocable, perpetual,
royalty free license grant for use by any and all Open Source software".

Read the license. It requires renewal every year, which is just a back
door allowing them to simply cease granting renewals, effectively
terminating the license. It is neither irrevocable, perpetual, or
applicable (transferable) to any and all Open Source software. It also
has an obnoxious advertising clause. Not acceptable.

http://www.polycom.com/usa/en/company/about_us/technology/siren14_g7221c/license_agreement.html

IANAL. If polycom truly wants their codec widely used, they should talk
with the Patent Commons Project: http://www.patent-commons.org/
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