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It is published under the terms of the [[BSD licenses#2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License")|Simplified (2-clause) BSD license]] and officially supports [[iOS]], [[Linux]], [[OS X]], and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] operating systems.

It is meant to also work outside webbrowsersweb browsers, e.g. to power [[native (computing)#Applications|native]] [[mobile appsapp]]s.

It is mostly written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and based largely on the multimedia framework [[GStreamer]] and a number of other, smaller external [[library (computing)|libraries]]. It officially supports both [[VP8]] and [[H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|H.264]] as video formats. For H.264 it uses [[OpenH264]] to which [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]] pays the patent licensing bills.

Development of OpenWebRTC started at [[Ericsson]] Research under the lead of Stefan Ålund.

They released it as [[free software]] in AugustSeptember 2014, together with the proof-of-concept webbrowserweb browser "Bowser" that is based on the stack. Among other things, this initial version didn't support datachannelsdata channels yet and was said to still be less mature than Google's reference implementation.

==External links==

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==References==

* David Meyer (gigaom.com), 2 October 2014: [https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/ericsson-open-sources-openwebrtc-to-provide-alternative-to-googles-webrtc-implementation/ Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, providing rival to Google’s WebRTC implementation]

* Mikael Ricknäs, 2 October 2014: [http://www.pcworld.com/article/2691212 Ericsson releases WebRTC browser and framework as open source]

* Sebastian Grüner (Golem.de), 2 October 2014: [http://www.golem.de/1410/109604 Ericsson: Freies WebRTC-Framework für native Client-Software]

* Tsahi Levent-Levi, November 3, 2014: [https://bloggeek.me/ericssons-openwebrtc-project/ What’s Behind Ericsson’s OpenWebRTC Project?]