Bug#664606: asterisk has a non-free copy of ilbc

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:47:24PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Faidon Liambotis <paravoid at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On 03/19/12 13:28, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> > The iLBC code in RFC 3591 was freed when the company that original
> > authored it (GIPS) was acquired by Google. See e.g.
> >    https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1649/
> 
> Hi!  That is only the patent license, right?  I don't see anything about
> the copyright and license of the code.

Right.

> 
> > I didn't check the one you pointed at, but I'm fairly sure it'll be
> > the exact same code.
> 
> No, it uses the code from WebRTC which appears to be different from the
> code in the RFC.

Right. So let's use it in Asterisk:

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-19835

Jeroen Dekkers provided some compatibility bits on top of the WebRTC
interface in:
https://github.com/dekkers/libilbc . This greatly reduced the required
changes in the asterisk code.

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