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Re: [codec] Broadcom submits BroadVoice codecs and offers its patent rights and C source codes of BV16/BV32 royalty free

"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@digium.com> Wed, 11 November 2009 05:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [codec] Broadcom submits BroadVoice codecs and offers its patent rights and C source codes of BV16/BV32 royalty free
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Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> Raymond (Juin-Hwey) Chen wrote:
>> Broadcom today issued a news release that formally announced that Broadcom is offering open source BroadVoice C code royalty-free and without licensing fees.
> 
> Thank you, and congratulations!  This will make the rest of our codec
> development process even more exciting.  Today, Broadcom is leading by
> example.

Well, not to diminish Broadcom's very welcome efforts, they are actually
second to the party, since CELT was already open source quite some time
ago :-)

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