Comment 30 for bug 93849

On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:45:31 Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 04:27:02PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:12:50 Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 04:04:38PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 06:29:39 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > > > > Nicolò Chieffo <email address hidden> writes:
> > > > > > Read here:
> > > > > > http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2009/05/11/help-for-transmageddon/
> > > > > > It seems that there's a free (apache licenced) amr decoder and
> > > > > > encoder in the android GIT repository. let's hope it will get
> > > > > > integrated into ffmpeg!
> > > >
> > > > I like this implementation better. I'll look into this instead.
> > >
> > > My favorite is the native FFmpeg implementation that was developed
> > > during Google Summer of Code 2006. Unfortunately it was never
> > > finished. With a bit of luck it will be finished during this year's
> > > SoC. Help is very much welcome.
> >
> > Yet another interesting implementation is retrocode.
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/retrocode/
> >
> > This one is GPL3+.
>
> No, this is not an implementation of AMR, it uses the nonfree libamr.
>
> Diego

Yeah, just realized that.

By the way, PacketVideo was able to obtain permission from 3GPP to use the code
in the specs under the Apache License. How hard would it be for someone to ask
3GPP for FFmpeg to use the code under (L)GPL?

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Regards,
Andres