GNU SIP Witch

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GNU SIP Witch

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Basic data

developer GNU project
Current  version 1.8.6
(Sept. 21, 2013)
operating system GNU / Linux , Mac OS X , BSD , Windows
programming language C ++
License GPL ( Free Software )
www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch

GNU SIP Witch (English "witch" = "witch") is a free SIP server software with peer-to-peer capabilities from the GNU project . It is the GNU implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which is used for routing calls.

Availability

SIP Witch is distributed as free software under the terms of version 3 or higher of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed for GNU / Linux , Mac OS X , BSD and Windows and should also support Android in the future . With the popular Linux distributions Ubuntu and Fedora , SIP Witch can be installed directly from the standard package sources.

technology

SIP Witch is written in the C ++ programming language and uses the uCommon, eXosip and GNU oSIP program libraries.

Functionality

The software enables IP telephony as part of a self-organizing peer-to-peer telephone network. It masters functions such as call diversion , call distribution, holding calls and presence notification and (text) messages, supports encrypted connections and also offers NAT penetration for establishing peer-to-peer connections.

history

The SIP Witch has been developed by David Sugar since August 10, 2007 as part of the GNU Telephony project. The first version was 0.1.0. Version 1 was released on May 14, 2011. It is used as a component of GNU Free Call, which is intended to be an alternative to Skype .

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c Dj Walker-Morgan: Peer-to-peer VOIP app GNU SIP Witch reaches version 1.0. (No longer available online.) Heise Media UK Ltd., May 17, 2011, archived from the original on May 15, 2012 ; accessed on May 19, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / h-online.com
  2. ↑ http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?sipwitch
  3. ↑ https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/sipwitch
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnutelephony.org
  5. ↑ http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/exosip
  6. ↑ http://www.gnu.org/software/osip/
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Baader: GNU SIP Witch reaches version 1.0. In: Pro-Linux. Baader & Lindner GbR, May 16, 2011, accessed on May 19, 2011 .