[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8 and MP3 code?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 02 August 2010 01:52:15 Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> I just noticed that the Asterisk Addons were merged into trunk/1.8
> back in June of 2009.  I know I'm coming to the party kind of late on
> this one, but what the heck is up with including MP3 code in the main
> Asterisk tarball?  I had to go through a lot of hoops to get Asterisk
> accepted into Fedora originally because the Asterisk tarballs
> contained patent-encumbered iLBC codecs and MP3 files.  With the
> removal of the iLBC codecs and the MP3 files I no longer had to go
> through those hoops anymore.  I really don't want to go back to the
> bad old days.  Can we please please please take the MP3 code out of
> Asterisk?

By default, the addons code is not compiled as a module in Asterisk.  You
would need to explicitly enable its compilation (through 'make menuselect') if
you wanted to use it.  Does this really present a problem, since the modules
are not enabled by default?

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