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Where did PWLib, OpenH323 and OPAL come from, and who is responsible for it now?

April 26, 2017opal openh323 pwlib responsible

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Where did PWLib, OpenH323 and OPAL come from, and who is responsible for it now?

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PWLib was started by in 1992 by Robert Jongbloed and Craig Southeren, and the copyright for the code was transferred to an Australian company called Equivalence Pty Ltd in 1996. Work commenced on OpenH323 in 1998, and PWLib and OpenH323 was released as Open Source software using the MPL license in the same year. The openh323.org domain name was acquired at this time, and the code was made available via a private server at that web address. OPAL coding started in late 1999 and was released under the same license.In early 2000, Robert and Craig sold Equivalence Pty Ltd and the rights to the openh323.org domain name to a US company called Quicknet Technologies Inc. They were also employed by Quicknet to support OpenH323 and to develop associated software. The OpenH323 CVS and mailing list was moved to a new server managed by Quicknet. The OpenH323 CVS was moved to SourceForge in May 2003. Robert and Craig ceased employment with Quicknet in June 2003.Currently, the CVS remains hosted on So