Licencing for iLBC components of asterisk

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Mark Purcell wrote:

> Could I ping you on the status of licencing for the iLBC codec files that 
> are currently shipped with asterisk.

I have an open issue internally on this exact problem, and no progress
has been made yet. I will try to get something moving.

> On the face of it the licence[1] for iLBC doesn't look compatible with 
> the GPL.

This is correct.

> Has Digium obtained a separate licence for this codec and could I 
> ask you to include the copyright/ license information with the Asterisk package.

I do not have an answer to that question yet, but there is a larger
concern: unless Digium has a *different* license than the one that GIPS
has posted on the Internet, nobody has permission to redistribute the
code without also agreeing to that license separately.

I don't know what this means for distribution packagers, and I suspect
strongly that Digium does not have any sort of special license to the
code that allows redistribution, but I'll let you know as soon as I can
get any answers.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)