Indeed the training manual is a non-commercial license, but why not make your own:
The site https://help.ubuntu.com/, if you look at the https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/newtoubuntu/C/legal.html indicates that this site is covered under the creative commons license; as is the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ site at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/License. To me this means that as long as you keep the attribution in "your" teaching materials, there is no reason why you cannot use them. You are charging for your time/rent/computer lease/paper cost/admin cost and not the cost of the documentation itself. The email they(canonical) sent to contributors (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing/Email) indicates a CC-by-SA license. There is absolutely no reason why you cannot take and reformat the documentation in a more usable form for training purposes as long as you maintain the CCbySA license, that is keeping the attribuions and potentially you may be required to publish your work at some point. As far as charging for training goes, there is nothing stopping you from doing that, just don't charge for the book. ie Blaise Allyens's Ubuntu Training Manual included free with the course. If you want to charge $100 a head or 2500 a head, that's the economics of training today. The same applies to training your employees. Where you may get into trouble is if you took someone else's training manual and used it to teach, as you may be breaching their copywrite, or other license. Regards, Glen Merrick -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
