Bug#664611: Bug#664606: additional information

[Simon Josefsson]

Mark Purcell <mark at purcell.id.au> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:32:09 Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> I noticed this site:
>> 
>> http://www.webrtc.org/ilbc-freeware
>
> Simon,
>
> In 2006 you filed the same bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393402
>
> Since then we have _not_ shipped ilbc in Debian,

Hi Mark.  Thanks for taking care of that, btw!

> until this year when Google purchased iLBC from GlobalIP solutions and
> re-licensed.

Do you have a pointer to this re-licensing?  With text that affects the
code license.

I have so far only seen:

1) A statement about freeing the patent license
2) The WebRTC project under a BSD-like license with a iLBC implementation

However the code in Asterisk/H323plus is using the code from the RFC
which is still non-free unless we can point to something saying anything
else.

> We should perhaps include something in the debian/copyright saying
> this is now free.

Right.

I checked the WebRTC svn repo, and the iLBC stuff was added in revision
4 but it is not the RFC code but modified.

Thanks,
/Simon