[Asterisk-biz] Third-party addons with ABE?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Jason Becker wrote:

> Does anyone know what Digium's position is with regard to Asterisk 
> Business Edition and third-party dialplans/modules/AGIs?

There is no position regarding dialplans, AGI, FastAGI or manager 
interfaces. All of those are 'external' to ABE and not covered by any 
license or support agreement.

> Is there a process in which third-party addons can be "blessed" by 
> Digium? Would running a third-party addon void the ABE maintenance 
> contract? I understand that a GPL third-party module is probably out of 
> the question buy what about AGIs?

Modules that are to be loaded into Asterisk may or may not be able to 
GPL, that is not clear at this point. Non-GPL modules can only be used 
with ABE or other commercially licensed Asterisk versions.

Add-ons that you wish to be 'blessed' as interoperable with ABE would 
need to be sent through the testing process; this would be managed by 
our Product Manager for ABE, and the provider of the module would need 
to sign an Interoperability Partner agreement to keep the module 
up-to-date and provide support for it.

Loading a third-party binary module into ABE would probably limit (if 
not preclude) the support department's ability to support that Asterisk 
installation.