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

[Henrik Ingo]

Jason Fischl wrote:
>>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 at fsf.org.  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.

Ok. Thanks guys for this info. I had not actually read the VOCAL license 
that carefully, I thought it was basically a rewording of BSD. Thanks 
for the heads up on this minefield and keep us posted.

henrik


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