asterisk iLBC codec support

Mikael Magnusson mikma264 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 08:33:53 UTC 2007


On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:02:17AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I see that the iLBC codec support in upstream asterisk was removed in 
> the DFSG asterisk package.
> 
> Is it available in a non-free package?

No, and you are not allowed to redistribute iLBC unless you register with
Glocal IP Sound. Maybe this is a problem even for distributing in
non-free?

> 
> If not, what's the best way for me to approach provision of such?  
> Should I include the sources back into the DFSG source package, but 
> spin the generated binaries into their own binary package in section 
> non-free?
> 
> Hmmm, mind you, that would force asterisk into contrib, yes?
> 

I think the best option whould be to break out codec_ilbc and
format_ilbc into a separate source package.

Mikael



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