ilbc is now legal?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi all,

As you probably know, a while ago Google bought GIPS, the company that
developed the ovice codec iLBC. That codec was licensed under an "almost
free" license which led a number of Free Software projects to include
it, and Debian packagers to remove it.

Shortly after buying GIPS, Google released a slightly different
implementation of the iLBC codec with a proper copyright and patents
license. However the patent license did not cover the old
implementations.

It seems that now they also explicitly provide a patent license for the
old iLBC code that seems to be (IMHO, IANAL, yada yada) to be
DFSG-compatible:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1649/

So hopefully we don't need to strip out the ilbc codec from upstream
tarballs anymore (opal? qutecom? any other package?).

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