Re: [Freetalk-dev] GNU Freetalk 0.7 loudmouth branch resumes

[Magnus Henoch]

"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <address@hidden> writes:

>> GNU Freetalk libjingle version is closed, because libjingle depends on
>> proprietary ilbc codec library. It is very unfortunate!. I wish we had
>> known this earlier.
>
> Is http://www.ilbcfreeware.org/ the "proprietary ilbc codec library"
> you are referring to?
>
> I can find libjingle packaged for Fedora. Given Fedora's
> not-too-recent initiative to ensure license compatibility with the
> FSF, I am a bit curious about this -- possibly a mistake on Fedora's
> part.

It seems that Fedora has packaged the libjingle version of the
Tapioca/Telepathy project (like Debian also did), instead of Google's
version, which depends on some ilbc library IIRC.

Magnus