[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8 and MP3 code?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 08/02/2010 07:18 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Tilghman Lesher <tlesher at digium.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 02 August 2010 01:52:15 Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, the mere presence of the MP3 code in the tarball would mean that
> I would need to unpack the tarball, remove the MP3 code, and repack
> the tarball before I uploaded it to the Fedora buildsystem.
> 
> I had to do the same for the iLBC codec even though you could disable
> it at compile time.

These pieces of code are restricted for different reasons; the iLBC code
itself cannot be distributed without accepting the GIPS license, but the
format_mp3 code has no such distribution restriction. That code can be
freely distributed, only usage falls under the patents in question. I
don't know how this maps to Fedora's policies, but they are different
situations.

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