Re: [Linphone-developers] G729 support in mediastremer2

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 23:17, kl wrote:
> But a better example should be mplayer. Mplayer, if I am not mistaken is GNU.

mplayer is licensed under the GPL-2, but it isnt a GNU project.

> Then there are various plugins or codecs which are possible with it without 
> sources. And in fact most of the time, they are not shipped together. But 
> people go somewhere and download it. It binds with mplayer and works 
> perfectly for the users.
>
> The same thing is possible with g729 codec plugin for linphone. Now the 
> plugin provider is going to claim that it's the customer who is downloading 
> it. The provider did not ship/distribute the whole thing together !!! So is 
> this the "smarter" way you are talking about ?

but linphone includes the g729 library header file and parses its
structures in order to glue to mediastreamer2.  i'm not a lawyer, but
if Simon is OK with the proposed patch, then i dont care.

not that it helps the OP at all since i dont think he using a Blackfin
processor.  he still needs to go find someone with an implementation
for his arch.
-mike