Elisa Nectoux <[email protected]> writes:

> I’m sorry that this caused any confusion. There was nothing malicious
> behind it. .smff is just a private internal format we created for
> internal purposes. It should not have been visible in the Linphone
> app, as it cannot be read by third party software —this was a mistake,
> and we’ll restore the previous behaviour soon.

Thanks for replying but I'm still somewhat unclear.  My original question:

>>  What is the larger situation with smff?  Is the assertion that it is a
>>  Belledonne-only thing valid?  Why was it created?  What Free software
>>  deals with it?

You just said "smff" is a "format", but from the git changes it looks
like an alternate file extension for matroska.  Can people with foo.smff
rename to foo.mkv and read them, or is it really a different format?

Where is the source code to read and write this format?  I couldn't find
it in the linphone git sources.

Thanks for ansewring about the nature of the proprietary license
offering.  I've removed the questions that I think you have answered,
and left the ones where I still don't understand.  (I realize you
probably need to consult with others to answer.)

>>  What was the rationale for changing mkv to smff in the source code in
>>  February of 2025?
>> 
>>  What is really going on with the sources?  It is irregular and very
>>  unusual to have commits with many unrelated changes from a software
>>  engineering viewpoint, and that suggests that the public-facing
>>  repository isn't the real repository, that there is an authoritative
>>  repository someplace else, and that this is some kind of squash
>>  commit.  But if linphone is "100% open source" then this sort of
>>  scheme doesn't make any sense.

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