Relicensing the AMR codec for inclusion in Ubuntu

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 05:15:05 UTC 2008


2008/9/19 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> I think that you should be aware that Voiceage actually control the
> licensing for amr:
>
> http://www.voiceage.com/licamr.php
> http://www.voiceage.com/amr_faqs.php
> Given the royalty fees involved  (http://www.voiceage.com/amr_licterms.php)
> I seriously doubt that you will get them to provide it to Ubuntu or
> other distro's for free.
>

I will propose a dual-license solution to them. Trolltech does
something similar with Qt, and I am confident that there are other
examples.

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