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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] commercial support</H1>
<B>Dick Gevers</B>
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<I>Fri Sep 24 21:24:00 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:58:03 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote about Re:
[Mageia-discuss] commercial support:
><i>2010/9/24 herman <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">herman at aeronetworks.ca</A>>:
</I>>><i> Yes, but that implies that the Mageia license terms must be sufficiently
</I>>><i> free that 3rd party commercial support can be done legally, using
</I>>><i> Mageia.
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</I>><i>The software is GPL, everybody can open shop and support any
</I>><i>distribution which only contains GPL software. The only thing which
</I>><i>depends on Mageia or any other distributor is if you want to offer
</I>><i>"certified by Mageia" or similar.
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</I>>><i> For example, one can legally do 3rd party installs and support with
</I>>><i> Debian and Scientific, but not with Redhat, Mandriva, Suse or even
</I>>><i> CentOS, due to their license and trademark terms (yes I know lots of
</I>>><i> people do regardless, but they haven't read/understood the license
</I>>><i> terms!).
</I>><i>
</I>><i>Partly wrong. You can always offer commercial support for openSUSE,
</I>><i>Mandriva Free Edition and such. Only thing you can't is offering
</I>><i>"certified support". And of course you need an agreement with
</I>><i>distributors of commercial distributions to support those.
</I>
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=
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