Foreign language asterisk sounds

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:00:11AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:32:55AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> Is there a reason (beyond nobody did it yet) we do not ship the Digium
>> asterisk French/Spanish sounds?

> there's just nobody pushing it.

Well, now there is. There is me :)

>>  - Can we presume the same license as Asterisk (or the English core
>>    sounds), or do we want an explicit OK from Digium? In the latter
>>    case, has anybody contacted Digium about that?

> These sounds don't technically "link" with asterisk. So their
> license is what that speaker/upstream says it is. At least in my
> understanding, yet IANAL.

Well, the current situation is that upstream doesn't say anything
explicit. I mainly wanted to check nobody from Debian had already
contacted Digium about this.

>>  - Shall we include them in the repackaged upstream tarball or as
>>    separate source packages?

> Seperate source makes more sense as the release cycles differ
> largely.

I was speaking about the ones on
http://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/; their release cycle is,
as far as I understand, synchronised with Asterisk; there is a tarball
for each Asterisk release in
http://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/releases/ .

(Possibly the sounds haven't changed between releases, but still: same
 release cycle, they are considered part of asterisk.)

>>  - Do we want to ship all coding variants or just GSM?

> That's a bit tricky. We can ship everything except iLBC, as we
> exclude iLBC from asterisk source and therefore wouldn't be able to
> read it.

It wouldn't? I would have thought it could read it and stream it on
an iLBC call, but not transcode it. Anyway, upstream doesn't
distribute iLBC prompts, but gsm, g729, alaw, ulaw, g722, wav (RIFF
(little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000
Hz).

-- 
Lionel