On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:58:03 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote about Re: [Mageia-discuss] commercial support:
>2010/9/24 herman <[email protected]>: >> Yes, but that implies that the Mageia license terms must be sufficiently >> free that 3rd party commercial support can be done legally, using >> Mageia. > >The software is GPL, everybody can open shop and support any >distribution which only contains GPL software. The only thing which >depends on Mageia or any other distributor is if you want to offer >"certified by Mageia" or similar. > >> For example, one can legally do 3rd party installs and support with >> Debian and Scientific, but not with Redhat, Mandriva, Suse or even >> CentOS, due to their license and trademark terms (yes I know lots of >> people do regardless, but they haven't read/understood the license >> terms!). > >Partly wrong. You can always offer commercial support for openSUSE, >Mandriva Free Edition and such. Only thing you can't is offering >"certified support". And of course you need an agreement with >distributors of commercial distributions to support those. If the need arises, what problem would there be if any number of Mageia volunteers set up a commercial "Mageia Service SA" with a license from the Mageia non-profit association to provide such commercial support? They could make a contract that the profits from the SA would go to the association and/or the shareholders and/or the employed volunteers at certain agreed percentages of the earnings. Ciao, =Dick Gevers= _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
