Re: Relicensing the AMR codec for inclusion in Ubuntu

On 09/18/2008 02:19 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have requested from th 3GPP organization to relicense the AMR codec
so that it can be included in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
They seem very interested and have requested that I fill out a
copyright questionnaire to make a formal request. I am not a lawyer
nor a software engineer, so I would appreciate it if people more
qualified than I would review the document and email me the results.
It is attached to the bug which catalyzed the idea:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/93849 (comment #14)

Thanks. If you know of other software projects that could benefit from
a relicensing of the AMR codec (pretty much every FOSS Linux
distribution and media player) then please forward to them this
message.


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 think that RealPlayer 11 (linux) will play amr files (they have
licenced amr (http://www.voiceage.com/amr_licensees.php)

I suppose that you could use amrb & amrwb as well...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=491885
Also see:
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr


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