[Asterisk-Users] H.323 support is distrubuted with Asterisk (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] chan_oh323.so: Segmentation Fault)

[Francisco Perez-Landaeta]

I think the same thing.

Francisco Perez-Landaeta

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Haeger" <thomas.haeger at beronet.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: AW: [Asterisk-Users] H.323 support is distrubuted with Asterisk
(was Re: [Asterisk-Users] chan_oh323.so: Segmentation Fault)


> Oh boys,
>
> dont't fight against each other.
> Why don't work together, so that H323 becomes a roundly and stable channel
> driver.
>
>
> Peace,
>
> Thomas.
>
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]Im Auftrag von Michael
> Manousos
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2003 14:04
> An: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Betreff: Re: [Asterisk-Users] H.323 support is distrubuted with Asterisk
> (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] chan_oh323.so: Segmentation Fault)
>
>
> Jeremy McNamara wrote:
> > People H.323 support has been distributed with Asterisk for over a month
> > now. see:  asterisk/channels/h323
> >
> > There is no reason to go out and download a third-party application.
>
> This is not the whole truth about H.323 and Asterisk.
> For all these people who don't know the real facts,
> if they look in the archives of the Asterisk mailing-list,
> they will discover that the first standard-based (ITU-T)
> VoIP support for Asterisk was asterisk-oh323 (H.323 channel
> driver). Of course, that first attempt was something very
> premature and had limited funcionality, but since then it has
> been improved in many ways. "asterisk-oh323" is still distributed
> and actively maintained by inAccess Networks, and we believe it
> to be a better implementation than chan_h323. The reason that
> asterisk-oh323 was not included in the asterisk source tree is that
> we were reluctant to assign its copyright to Digium. Nevertheless,
> asterisk-oh323 is free software distributed under the GPL.
>
> Some months since the original announcement of our h323 support package,
> McNamara sent a mail to the Asterisk's
> list saying that he had made his own H.323 channel driver.
> Well, guess what? He edited the original channel driver,
> with no major improvements (how can anyone consider source code refacing
> as an impovement??) and presented it as his own work.
> He never submitted patches, fixes, or
> suggestions for improvement of asterisk-oh323. He decided to fork the
> project from day one. If anyone were to compare the
> sources of the two channel drivers, he would see that there are
> still great portions that are common.
> As a "thanks" to the authors of the *original* asterisk H.323 channel
> driver, McNamara removed all the copyright notices from the source
> files.
>
> Well done! Great job!
>
> Michael.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Jeremy McNamara
> >
> >
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