iLBC codec legal status
Casey Dahlin
cdahlin at redhat.com
Thu Aug 14 17:29:49 UTC 2008
Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> 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.
>>
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> [...]
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>> 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
>
>
Is the restriction on the reference implementation or the codec itself?
If the latter, could someone not re-implement it without looking at the
reference implementation?
My understanding is Copyright couldn't prevent someone from
re-implementing and using their code under whatever license. Patents,
however, could.
I2ANAL
--CJD
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