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by lzaf 3546 days ago
As mentioned here: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2016-Septembe...

'In order to lessen the risk of future legal action, the codec reports anonymous stats to Digium once per day that contain the maximum number of simultaneous opus channels in the past 24 hours. Again, totally anonymous. We don't even record ip address, just a uuid and count.'

Surely not ideal but the data sent 'home' are minimal and as anonymous as possible. What really smells bad in this and similar cases is the madness surrounding the whole software patent legislation. For those who still like to prevent the module from reporting any data more details can be found here: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2016-Septembe...