Thanks greg, I’ll check internally to reply to this last question :) We’ll keep in touch.
Elisa NECTOUX Sales & Marketing Manager Belledonne Communications, the company behind the Linphone project www.linphone.org <http://www.linphone.org/> > Le 27 oct. 2025 à 14:29, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> a écrit : > > 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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