[Adium-devl] Jingle, Sip and IAX2 in one step

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Nov 09, 2006, at 02:46, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:41 PM, Brian West wrote:
>
>> Things g.729, g723.1 and AMR are so patented encumbered its not  
>> something you can release or use in a GPL project without someone  
>> coming down on you hard.
>
> Then wouldn't that rule out using it in Adium since it is GPL v2  
> (and probably staying GPL v2 since we can't contact all authors and  
> get permission)?

Note that Google is supporting Speex, which does not have any IP issues:
http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/speex-support.html

This would be our best bet to use (H.264 for video wouldn't be a  
problem, since we'd use QuickTime for encoding it, and not do it on  
our own).

andy