Re: [Ring] What happened to sflphone?

[Stepan Salenikovich]

----- On Dec 7, 2016, at 3:58 PM, David Burleigh address@hidden wrote:

> Well, I can't figure out where Ring is going. I used to depend on
> sflphone for its ability to connect to our PBX via IAX, but now that
> appears to have been abandoned. If Ring actually were a marriage of
> sflphone's capabilities as a softphone with a peer-to-peer encrypted
> text/audio/video mechanism it would be a wonderful replacement for
> Skype, but it doesn't seem to be going that way. Am I mistaken?

No, I think this is the current direction of Ring. However we are not currently
supporting IAX.

It was dropped for 2 main reaons:

1. At some point some refactoring was done which broke support for IAX.

2. During the process of becoming a GNU project, we realized the library which
we used to support IAX [0] and which was still part of our dependencies was not
compatible with our licence (GPLv3) as it is GPLv2, not GPLv2+ or 3.

We are still supporting and planning to continue supporting SIP.

-stepan

[0] libiax2 - I'm not actually sure where, if anywhere, this project is hosted