Bug#664606: additional information

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:35:30PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> On 03/19/12 13:28, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > Some even further information, as I seen that others have identified the
> > problem, see for example:
> > 
> > http://yate.null.ro/mantis/view.php?id=295
> > 
> > There exists a libilbc library with a clear license here:
> > 
> >  https://github.com/dekkers/libilbc
> > 
> > It is labeled as a "drop-in replacement for the non-free code in RFC
> > 3591".
> 
> The iLBC code in RFC 3591 was freed when the company that original
> authored it (GIPS) was acquired by Google. See e.g.
>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1649/
> 
> There are multiple people who have extracted this code from the RFC and
> either included it as-is in their source trees or created libraries out
> of it. I didn't check the one you pointed at, but I'm fairly sure it'll
> be the exact same code.
> 
> The best solution (but I'm not speaking as a maintainer, since I haven't
> been doing that for the VoIP team for quite some time) would be to
> package one of these libraries and "port" all the software the uses it
> to use that. Licensing-wise it won't make a big difference (besides a
> proper debian/copyright), but it'll help to reduce code duplication and
> security response.

To save you the search:

http://www.linphone.org/eng/download/git.html
or:
http://www.soft-switch.org/downloads/voipcodecs/

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