Hello All!
The legal status of iLBC codec (which has some advantages over other speech codecs) prevented us from inclusion its sources into Fedora repository. We even were forced to modify original tarballs for several VoIP software projects to remove its sources before uploading to the Fedora packaging repository.
Fortunately Google had bought Global IP Sound company, the original author of iLBC and several months ago they released WebRTC project under free license which contains several codecs (and ILBC among them). Unfortunately it's not an easy task to properly package software from Google (as usual), so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for proper support for iLBC codec in the nearest future.
So current situation with iLBC looks quite complicated to me. We have old sources stripped from RFC text which were licensed under non-free custom license and were included in a lot of other VoIP projects as is. Also we have new modified sources released by Google under free license (within WebRTC) with somewhat different API (none of the existing VoIP software is compatible with them AFAIC). Google explicitly states that iLBC now available under the same license as other WebRTC parts but I'm not sure what's the status of old sources.
*My* *question* *is* - can we at least stop stripping of iLBC sources from packages? I will definitely ask FESCo later which is in charge of making technical decisions regarding unbundling libraries, however before asking technical questions I'd like to hear some legal advises.
* http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3951.txt * http://www.webrtc.org/ilbc-freeware * http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2Fmodules%2... * http://www.soft-switch.org/downloads/voipcodecs/ilbc-0.0.2.tar.gz * http://nucleo.fedorapeople.org/rpms/mediastreamer/SPECS/ilbc.spec