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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