[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8 and MP3 code?

[Russell Bryant]

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 12:26 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 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:
> > 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.

That sounds like a good plan to me.  Here is a patch to implement that
plan:

https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/836/

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