iLBC codec legal status
Jeffrey Ollie
jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Aug 14 15:39:17 UTC 2008
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ILBC is a low-bitrate codec used in many OSS and commerciall
> applications. However its legal status isn't clear at least for me.
[...]
> Is it acceptable for inclusion into Fedora?
No, it is not, because it places unacceptable restrictions on commercial use.
I had to strip iLBC from Asterisk tarballs for quite a while until
Digium finally removed the code themselves.
Jeff
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