[Mageia-discuss] commercial support

Fri Sep 24 22:34:40 CEST 2010

Le 2010-09-24 16:25, André Machado a écrit :
+> --- rdalverny at gmail.com escreveu:
+> From: "Romain d'Alverny"<rdalverny at gmail.com>
+> To: Mageia general discussions<mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
+> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] commercial support
+> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:59:55 +0200
+> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 21:24, Dick Gevers<dvgevers at xs4all.nl>
+> wrote:
+>>> 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.
+>> This  is  something  we expect and welcome to happen: companies
+>> providing
+>> commercial support and services from and around the distribution.
+>> We expect this to happen as they would need, to be consistent with
+>> their own business, to contribute back to the Mageia project: be it
+>> upstream patches, sponsoring, resources, developers time, any other
+>> role, etc. (of course, such a contribution would not, in any case,
+>> alter the governance of the project).
+>> Indeed, licensing and guidelines for this to happen smoothly have to
+>> be thought out properly.
+>> Romain
+>
+> For now, I think that a simply page with contact informations about who can
+> provide free and commercial support is enough. This page should have a disclaimer
+> that Mageia Foundation is not responsible or affiliated with these professionals.
+>
+> Futer, will can exists a formal company to offer professional support to Mageia
+> (we can take advantage of that from guy what posted "Suggestion" message such that
+> part from that's company profits be reverted from Mageia Foundation.
+>
+> We can put artworks under a Creative Commons license, so, everyone will can use it,
+> or we can do a Red Hat-like licence and authorizes only certain companies - as the
+> above mentioned - to use it, however, there will be a chance to a new fork creation.
+>
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+Thanks André for your input. But, your post has now broken the thread. 
+Could you just do a "Respond" or "Answer" from your mail agent next 
+time. That way your input will not be lost. We no longer have a trail of 
+posting that happened before your answer.
+
+Marc
+
+