Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] how to convert g729 RTP stream into anyplayableformat?

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:52:47PM +0100, PawelCarqowski wrote:
>>  > I believe it should not be license problem if I public just my stub code like an example.
> 
> I think so too: As long as you only publish the source ther eshouldn't
> be any problem. Although from looking at the price tag: Who's going to
> use these libs?

According to the Imtelephone site, the free evaluation versions of the libraries
can run for 60 hours, which should be more than enough time to analyze a trace
file. According to http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+G.729+Licensing, as
long as you're using the codec for "study and experimentation" you aren't
subject to patent requirements.

BTW, an open source G.729/G.723.1 implementation is available at
http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/ipp-codecs-g729-g723.1/.  Would that be
preferable?

Asterisk handles G.729 support via an external module which can be purchased
from Digium.  Would there be any interest in something similar for Wireshark?

>>  > Should we have such an example on Wiki or directly in the svn source?
> 
> I'd like to have a contrib directory in the source where we could
> provide scripts, colorfilters etc. That directory could contain non-gpl
> stuff. And this directory might be a good place to put the code for
> the plugins that require licensed stuff to be useable.

Sounds good to me.