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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] commercial support</H1>
<B>Marc Paré</B>
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<I>Fri Sep 24 22:34:40 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Le 2010-09-24 16:25, André Machado a écrit :
><i> --- <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">rdalverny at gmail.com</A> escreveu:
</I>><i> From: "Romain d'Alverny"<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>>
</I>><i> To: Mageia general discussions<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss at mageia.org</A>>
</I>><i> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] commercial support
</I>><i> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:59:55 +0200
</I>><i> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 21:24, Dick Gevers<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">dvgevers at xs4all.nl</A>>
</I>><i> wrote:
</I>>>><i> If the need arises, what problem would there be if any number of Mageia
</I>>>><i> volunteers set up a commercial "Mageia Service SA" with a license from the
</I>>>><i> Mageia non-profit association to provide such commercial support? They
</I>>>><i> could make a contract that the profits from the SA would go to the
</I>>>><i> association and/or the shareholders and/or the employed volunteers at
</I>>>><i> certain agreed percentages of the earnings.
</I>>><i> This is something we expect and welcome to happen: companies
</I>>><i> providing
</I>>><i> commercial support and services from and around the distribution.
</I>>><i> We expect this to happen as they would need, to be consistent with
</I>>><i> their own business, to contribute back to the Mageia project: be it
</I>>><i> upstream patches, sponsoring, resources, developers time, any other
</I>>><i> role, etc. (of course, such a contribution would not, in any case,
</I>>><i> alter the governance of the project).
</I>>><i> Indeed, licensing and guidelines for this to happen smoothly have to
</I>>><i> be thought out properly.
</I>>><i> Romain
</I>><i>
</I>><i> For now, I think that a simply page with contact informations about who can
</I>><i> provide free and commercial support is enough. This page should have a disclaimer
</I>><i> that Mageia Foundation is not responsible or affiliated with these professionals.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Futer, will can exists a formal company to offer professional support to Mageia
</I>><i> (we can take advantage of that from guy what posted "Suggestion" message such that
</I>><i> part from that's company profits be reverted from Mageia Foundation.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> We can put artworks under a Creative Commons license, so, everyone will can use it,
</I>><i> or we can do a Red Hat-like licence and authorizes only certain companies - as the
</I>><i> 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
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