iLBC licensing

[Ryan Egesdahl]

We can hope. I don't think we're going to be left with any choice unless I
turn out to be some diplomatic wunderkind. I'll do my best, but for now I am
going with the assumption that we will need the separate package due to the
fact that I am having trouble even getting their rep to understand the
difference between Debian and Digium.

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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>wrote:

> 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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