[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] iLBC codec can be added to asterisk again as it is available under a new license now

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:07:10PM -0000, one47 wrote:
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> I am not a lawyer, BUT... Part of the licence on the Google page is an
> "Additional IP Rights grant."
> https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/license-rights/additional-ip-grant
> That grant is specifically for "...[Google's] implementation of the
> WebRTC code package". The source code that this patch adds is not the
> Google implementation, so you probably do not have full rights to
> distribute this code with Asterisk.

I'm likewise not a lawyer, but, wouldn't it be better to just have the
iLBC code in a separate library rather than included in the asterisk
source tree?

The iLBC code has also been stripped by Debian from Mumble. So I suspect
such a library will find its uses.

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