[Mageia-discuss] commercial support

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2010/9/24 herman <herman at aeronetworks.ca>:
> Yes, but that implies that the Mageia license terms must be sufficiently
> free that 3rd party commercial support can be done legally, using
> Mageia.

The software is GPL, everybody can open shop and support any
distribution which only contains GPL software. The only thing which
depends on Mageia or any other distributor is if you want to offer
"certified by Mageia" or similar.

> For example, one can legally do 3rd party installs and support with
> Debian and Scientific, but not with Redhat, Mandriva, Suse or even
> CentOS, due to their license and trademark terms (yes I know lots of
> people do regardless, but they haven't read/understood the license
> terms!).

Partly wrong. You can always offer commercial support for openSUSE,
Mandriva Free Edition and such. Only thing you can't is offering
"certified support". And of course you need an agreement with
distributors of commercial distributions to support those.

wobo