Skype has announced that it has published the source code for its SILK audio codec, introduced last year, which the company uses in its internet telephony applications for Windows and Mac OS X
Full story »Skype has announced that it has published the source code for its SILK audio codec, introduced last year, which the company uses in its internet telephony applications for Windows and Mac OS X
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aboutblank
14 years 5 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago
Good News
As far as I can tell, the source code to the SILK audio codec as published by Skype to the Internet Engineering Task Force Group is free software licensed under a liberal free software license.
I would note that one should be careful about the SILK software development kit (SDK) which is available on Skype's website. This SDK is non-free software.
stargrave
14 years 5 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago
Re: Good News
I have got opposite opinion on this. According to page related to that codec (https://developer.skype.com/silk) on the Skype's site itself:
Skype Limited hereby separately grants to you a license under its patents to use this software for internal evaluation and testing purposes only. This license expressly excludes use of this software for distribution or use in any commercial product or any commercial or production use whatsoever.
As I can see -- license does not permit commercial usage for example, so it can not be called free software.
stargrave
14 years 5 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago
Re: Good News
Damned! That non-free software license is for SDK only. My fault :-). The codec itself is under BSDish license. That is really good.