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Re: [reSIProcate] Hi guys, am I in the right place?


>
> Well, AIX is probably not competing with MacOSX even though they run on
> similar processors now.  What you probably mean is IAX, which is yet another
> PBX signaling/transport protocol.  From what I can tell, the world is moving
> away from this direction, not towards it.  Asterisk's approach to SIP is to
> essentially map a subset of SIP onto IAX, impose extra restrictions, and let
> Asterisk mangle the data as it sees fit.  The signaling and media are forced
> along the same path, which may or may not be what you want, but you lose
> flexibility with respect to SIP.   The biggest reason you don't see more OSS
> developed with reSIP is its license.  I have a mostly-complete plugin for
> kopete to do presence and IM using resip with some stubs for voice calls.  I
> haven't made it available because parts of Kopete are GPL and reSIP's VOCAL
> license isn't GPL-compatible according to license@xxxxxxxx  This actually
> prevents KDE applications from being written with reSIP unless you have a Qt
> developer license, although I suspect Trolltech would be forgiving on this
> issue.
>

The resip community is working on fixing the license to be GPL
compatible. Hopefully we will get this done in the next couple of
months.

Jason