Bug#665938: iLBC licensing

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 02:18:58PM -0600, Ryan Egesdahl wrote:
> 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.

Here's where things stand:

I strongly suspect that there's no proper license for the iLBC code in
Asterisk. I stripped it from the pending (SVN) version of Asterisk.
It should shortly be available as well for testing in
http://updates.xorcom.com/pkg-voip/ .

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-19835
should have all the required code in Asterisk.

http://github.com/dekkers/libilbc mentioned there is a simple library
with Debian packaging that works, and (if needed) can probably inlcuded
in Debian. It includes the iLBC codec from webrtc with the interface
mostly adapted to the one from RFC 3951 used in existing programs.

However I'm not really convinved that iLBC support is useful and worth
the trouble of adding an extra library to Debian. Thus I'd like to ask
the simple question: raise your hand if you need the iLBC codec support.

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