[Mageia-discuss] commercial support

[Marc Paré]

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