[Mageia-discuss] commercial support

[Romain d'Alverny]

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