FOOD FOR THOUGHT Commercial Modules

[krzykat]

Besides those from Sangoma, what other FreePBX Commercial modules are out there?

 

[Samot]

Besides FreePBX, what other Commercial modules are out there?

Do you mean what other commercial modules are out there for FreePBX, such as third party?

 

[krzykat]

Yes

 

[Samot]

Yes

Basically, pretty much none. The contributor license doesn't allow it so at best you'll have third parties like AsterNIC or others that will have commercial solutions but they are installed outside of FreePBX. Others will offer a free module that connects back to a commercial service but nothing directly on the system.

 

[krzykat]

I don't think the answer is none, as Clearly IP seems to have it. Was just wondering, there must be more. What about "free modules" that connect back to commercial as you state? that would still accomplish the same thing (expanding FreePBX with some paid modules).

 

[Samot]

ClearlyIP modules do not work with the FreePBX Distro, this is why I specified the distro. Commercial modules are encoded and can only be run on the distro. Non-distro installs of FreePBX can't use FreePBX commercial modules because of the encoding. Commercial modules can't be contributed and merged into the FreePBX repos because the agreements don't allow for that.

So basically someone needs to contribute commercial modules to IncrediblePBX since IPBX has its own repos to pull modules from and the developer would need to have it merged into the repos to be pulled. Or you need someone who has developed a module that can be installed locally and not managed in the repos.

Again, the answer is basically none that do that because they want the actual FreePBX market and don't want to be locked out of it by violating terms.

Also from what I understand ClearlyIP help setup the IPBX repos and I believe helps manage them.