iLBC license issue

[Jan Janak]

Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Saturday 18 March 2006 13:13, Jan Janak wrote:
>> kphone (and maybe other packages) contain iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec)
>> library. This library has been published as part of RFC3951 by the IETF.
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Yes this is an big issue:
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2005-October/002711.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00000.html
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331318
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8528430&forum_id=45235
> 
> I don't think we (Debian) have addressed it adequately yet ;-(

  My apologies, I should have checked the list archives before sending the
  message.

> That said it is mainly an upstream issue for openh323, kphone and asterisk. 
> Can anyone check opal?
> 
> All three include the ilbc code, with various interpertations of the licencing 
> issues for ilbc. and then claim their entire package is under the respective 
> licence.
> 
> http://www.openh323.org/pipermail/openh323/2003-May/061142.html
> 
> They are all using the same library code, so it would make sense for Debian to 
> ship an libilbc{-dev} package, which would contain all the licence issues, 
> and then for the other packages to link to that package.

  I do have such a package:

http://apt.sip-router.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ilbc_1.1-0.1_i386.deb
http://apt.sip-router.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ilbc-doc_1.1-0.1_all.deb
http://apt.sip-router.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/ilbc_1.1-0.1.dsc

  Do you want me to inject the package into svn ? Note that I just took the
  sources from RFC and packaged them, I did not modify existing
  applications.

  I can help with modifying kphone to link against this library if others
  agree that we should have libilbc.

    Jan.