Jami (software)

Jami is a free and open-source telecommunications platform for peer-to-peer and distributed videotelephony, videoconferencing, and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, support for calls to landline and mobile telephones (over traditional telephone networks), and other features.

Jami is free and open-source software released under the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later. Jami is developed by Savoir-faire Linux (SFL) and community contributors.

Jami is available for most desktop and mobile platforms. Internal builds of Jami for web browsers are yet to be publicly released. Jami is installed by default in Trisquel.

In December 2004, Savoir-faire Linux launched the SFLPhone project to develop a digital telephone for businesses, entirely designed using open-source technologies. SFLPhone was a professional softphone that could manage an unlimited number of lines and calls on a daily basis. Compliant with telecommunications standards (SIP and IAX), it interconnected with the Asterisk software, a private branch exchange distributed under the free GPLv2 license or under a commercial license for GNU/Linux systems.

In November 2009, CIO magazine listed SFLphone among the top five open-source VoIP softphones to watch.

In May 2015, SFLphone was renamed to Ring. Ring integrated distributed architecture, which does not require a centralized server to establish communication.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2016, Ring was integrated into the GNU project. Ring is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2018, Ring was renamed to Jami to avoid confusion with commercial products also using the English term Ring.