Developemnt and use - Training manual

[Neal McBurnett]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:53:24AM +0300, Billy Cina wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The purpose of the license is to prevent the material being used for
> profit-seeking purposes. If you (or anyone else) is from a not-for-profit
> institution or running community classes etc., then this material is 100%
> intended for that. Charging students minimal fees to cover expenses is also ok.

Thank you for the training manual :-)

The "share and share alike" part of the license is the most important
in my view, and it is similar to the GPL license that is popular in
Ubuntu.

I think the "non-commercial" part is more complicated than most people
think, and makes it less useful to both commercial and non-commercial
use.  I'm currently self-employed and not contemplating any commercial
use of this, but I have worked for big corporations, and have
experienced (and contributed to) the growth of free software driven by
for-profit corporations.  (And I have seen not-for-profit corporations
act in ways that are not at all community-spirited - e.g. huge
hospitals that pay their CEOs outrageous salaries.)

E.g. I would love to see big enterprise users using this for training
their people, even though it would be for-profit.  And I would love
for them to base their products on Ubuntu (e.g. a point-of-sale
product) and use this to train their customers in how to use Ubuntu,
even though they would charge for that training.

The point is they would still have to share modifications, and we
would all benefit - both the training community, and the whole Ubuntu
user and developer community - because it would be essentially a
win-win-win.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

> Hope this clears any misunderstanding.
> 
> Best regards
> Billy Cina
> Training Programmes Manager
> 
> Colin Watson wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:53:12PM -0700, George Farris wrote:
> 
> 
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
> 
>         This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu.  The
>         license says share and add to but not for commercial use.  Why ion earth
>         would you not allow Educational Institutions to use this material in
>         classes.  I find this very strange.
> 
>         Possibly the license could be tweaked to at least allow training people
>         with this material.
> 
>         If anyone has any information about this I would be very interested.
> 
> 
> 
>     I've CCed Billy and Torsten, who would be the appropriate people to
>     reply to this.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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