iLBC licensing

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:28:35PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Ryan,
> 
> On 07/01/2011 09:50 μμ, Ryan Egesdahl wrote:
> > I am currently exchanging emails with someone at GIPS who can help
> > clarify the licensing for iLBC. So far, however, it's looking like iLBC
> > should be compiled as a separate non-free package to comply with their
> > licensing requirements unless I can talk them into something a bit more
> > permissive. I am also making sure there won't be any problems with
> > compiling Asterisk against the library as well. I will be sure to
> > forward the entire exchange to this list if and when I get somewhere.
> 
> Thanks for that.
> 
> Note, however, that if iLBC is in non-free and asterisk uses that,
> asterisk would have to go in contrib. And that's totally unacceptable,
> sorry.
> 
> We can, however, have a separate source package in contrib that provides
> just an asterisk-codec-ilbc package (that asterisk isn't depending upon
> it) but that will bring us the ABI hell we've been experiencing with
> various third-party packages.

There are already some external module packages maintained in Debian.
Well, in 1.8 there will only be chan-capi, I guess. But still.

Upstream does seem to care about not breaking ABI due to a certain
codec_g729.so . Which means that it will hopefully not break.

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