[FFmpeg-devel] Is it ok to add G.722.1 decoder as external lib?

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 18:55:39 EEST 2019


Hi,

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:53 AM Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:05 AM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Am Sa., 21. Sept. 2019 um 16:51 Uhr schrieb Ronald S. Bultje
>> <rsbultje at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > So it appears, from the discussion (..), that although there is source
>> > code, it is not actually "open" in the sense that it's not
>> redistributable
>> > (at least not explicitly so) or modifiable? If I were hosting a copy on,
>> > say, github (or Debian), I'd be in legal trouble with this Freeswitch
>> > company?
>>
>> (Afaik) Freeswitch is a distributor of binaries based on FFmpeg's and
>> Polycom's source code. Freeswitch also hosts Polycom's source code.
>>
>> It appears to me that Freeswitch claims that while libg7221 is not a
>> Free library (and has a license incompatible with the GPL), it is
>> "open source" and can be distributed.
>
>
> Hm... Right, OK, so the question is indeed going to hinge on whether that
> is true or not. I suggest we open a github issue/request with exactly that
> question. :-).
>

I take that back, there's a COPYING that addresses this:

https://github.com/traviscross/freeswitch/blob/master/docs/COPYING

Seems relatively sane to me?

Ronald


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