[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8 and MP3 code?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 08/02/2010 11:46 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> As far as Fedora is concerned it doesn't matter why it's non-free, I
> have to strip it out of the tarball. "addons/format_mp3.c" is
> *probably* OK, but since it's a little bit more than just a wrapper
> around an MP3 decoding library it worries me. The code in "addons/mp3"
> is right out of course.
> 
> I believe that it would be acceptable to Fedora if the addons/mp3 code
> was moved to an external tarball and the addons/Makefile had some code
> to download and extract the tarball if format_mp3 was enabled by the
> user (Fedora of course would not enable it of course).

Well, it's Russell's call to make, and he's on vacation today, but that
strategy could certainly work; we could move the 'mpglib' stuff to our
thirdparty repository.

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