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Pierre Dumuid wrote:
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I was just looking at the page:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.speex.org/comparison.html">http://www.speex.org/comparison.html</a><br>
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and noticed:<br>
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<td><a href="http://www.ilbcfreeware.org/">iLBC</a></td>
<td>8</td>
<td>13.3</td>
<td>30</td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td>no charge, but not open-source</td>
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But when I went to that link, it seemed that:<br>
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<h2><font color="#000080">iLBC is <i>free</i></font></h2>
Unlike the other low bitrate codecs, iLBC is available for free and
comes with full source code. If you would like to try it out and use
it, <a
href="http://www.ilbcfreeware.org/documentation/gips_iLBClicense.pdf"
target="_blank">please see freeware license.</a>.<br>
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I'm a bit curious that you have labelled this "not open-source". I had
a quick read of the license, and it seemed a bit restrictive, (not
allowing for forking of code that would break functionality with their
bit stream, etc...) <br>
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Maybe a better sentence would be "no charge, source available,
restrictive licensing on source (not open-source)"<br>
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Yeah, but that wouldn't fit in the box.<br>
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Anyway, the most commonly accepted definition of open-source would not
consider the iLBC codec to be open-source. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php">http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php</a> Section 3:<br>
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"The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow
them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the
original
software."<br>
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This license restricts modifications.<br>
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-SteveK<br>
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