Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The GNU oSIP library

[Guillaume Morin]

I've accepted your project as non-gnu project since it is still being
evaluated. We will migrate your project as soon as it will be accepted
into the GNU project.

Regards.

Dans un message du 25 jan à  8:44, address@hidden écrivait :
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> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
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> Moizard <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: lgpl
> Other License: 
> Package: The GNU oSIP library
> System name: osip
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> oSIP is an LGPL implementation of SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol, 
> written in C language. oSIP is a low level SIP stack which aims to provide 
> multimedia and telecom software developers an easy and powerful interface to 
> initiate and control SIP based sessions in their applications.  oSIP only 
> depends on the C library and should be ANSI compliant (optionnaly, there are 
> dependancies on the pthread library to ease developpements of multi-threaded 
> SIP software. Linux is the kernel used for developpements, but it is also 
> maintained on Windows. oSIP is also knows to compile on a various flavor of 
> unix but each version is not tested on those operating sytems.
> 
> SIP is not only a signalling protocol for VoIP, but also for any multimedia 
> sesions. SIP is the protocol choosed by the third generation (3G) network. It 
> has very nice nearly defined extensions for presence managements and instant 
> messaging as they will be part of the next generation architectures and 
> services provided by future operators. As an example, the next release of 
> UMTS (rel5) which should be out by march uses SIP as the signalling protocol. 
> Also, SIP is a light and full featured replacement for H323 (signalling part) 
> that perfectly fits embeded devices. 
> 
> SIP is a HTTP and MAIL like protocol. To make a phone call, you\'ll get the 
> same interface than with emails. You\'ll find in SIP messages the usual 
> following headers:
> 
> From: sip:address@hidden
> To: sip:address@hidden
> Subject: Let\'s have a phone call about oSIP.
> 
> SIP messages are routed in the network via SIP proxy server. Those SIP 
> servers (attached to a domain) receive registrations for their users and are 
> able to root calls towards the current callees\' location. This enable 
> terminal mobility as well as personnal mobility. Media are negociated by 
> endpoints allowing audio, video, whiteboard sharing and any mutlimedia 
> sessions to be used
> depending on the codec supported by both endpoints.
> 
> It already exists and you can see it at http://osip.atosc.org
> oSIP is already considered stable since 0.7.1 and is nearly
> fully compliant with a very few exceptions.
> 
> The library is used by linphone (GPL) http://www.linphone.org/ which CVS is 
> located on the non-gnu side of savannah. linphone is a SIP softphone.
> 
> I\'m also building a redirect server called osrd (GPL). The goal of this 
> project is to provide personnal mobility. The CVS is also located on the 
> non-gnu side of savannah. Next step will provide presence facilities 
> compliant with the UMTS release 5 and Latest Windows Messenger on XP which is 
> now SIP based. oSIP will help to build clients wich will interoperate with 
> microsoft new generation products as they have already choosed SIP.
> 
> We are now needing a proxy server with NAT capabilites allowing a large 
> deployement of the SIP technology. Actually no freesoftware can provide that. 
> This will be the next step.
> 
> As oSIP is LGPL, most oSIP users comes from the industry and are developping 
> proprietary applications. oSIP is highly used by R&D labs to evaluate the SIP 
> capabilities and test their existing applications. Contributions mainly comes 
> from this industry. (the mailing list includes
> 76 guys).
> 
> The stack has been evaluated by David Sugar and the last issue was to get a 
> copyright disclaimer from my employer. I have received it yesterday and I\'m 
> ready to send it to the fsf. Let me know where to send it.
> 
> Thanks
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