[OpenSIPS-Users] Kamailio?

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Sun Aug 17 20:09:12 CEST 2008


C. Bergström wrote:
> Edgar Guadamuz wrote:
>   
>> I'm sorry if this has been asked before, there is not the answer in
>> the mail since I registered...
>>
>> In the kamailio web page (http://www.kamailio.org) there is said that
>> due to trademark issues, openser was named kamailio from version 1.4
>>
>> If so, what is opensips? what is the difference between opensips and kamailio?
>>   
>>     
> To start..
>
> In my *very* humble opinion.. both projects are the result of some lack 
> of communication that ended up resulting in egos clashing.  I don't know 
> which side is /right/ or /wrong/ or who started it and frankly don't 
> care, so forgive me not if I don't add those details.
>   
I would rectify here and say the reason had nothing to do with 
communication and egos, but with the lack of a agreement of the future 
vision over the project -

To answer in a automatic way to this question, I will add an history 
page on the opensips web page just to clarify things.
> The most important difference is actually going to be the code and 
> continued quality of *both* projects.  I say both because even if both 
> sides can't resolve to directly work together it's open source.  The 
> *smart* project is going to end up taking the patches from the other and 
> merging them.  
copying bring no value to a project :) - copying with no understanding 
over the code is more dangerous than not copying - to give you an 
example, the kamilio project blindly copied commits from opensips 
without getting into the logic and they ended up importing intermediary 
code that contains bugs, so right now kamilio has some non-functional 
modules in the 1.4.0 release because of this copy policy.

I think the value of a project is the new and inovation and not the 
power of copy. I say originals are more valuables.
>
> For example.. There was a commit from Klaus in Kamailio that opensips  
> 1.4.1 would have benefited from *if* someone had taken the time to do this.
>   
bug reports are welcomed anytime. We avoid importing commits without a 
deeper analysis of the bug itself (I'm saying it, because I say some 
fast fixes in kamilio, fixes that solves a problem, but breaks something 
else).

Thanks and regards,
Bogdan
> Cheers,
>
> ./C
>
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