Le 2010-09-24 16:25, André Machado a écrit :
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From: "Romain d'Alverny"<[email protected]>
To: Mageia general discussions<[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
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
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