Developemnt and use - Training manual

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 25 April 2008 10:15, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> 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.

If this were packaged for inclusion in Ubuntu it would have to go into 
Multiverse because it does not carry a free license.  It seems rather counter 
productive to license training materials more restrictively than the 
distribution.

The availability of training materials that can be easily (and legally) 
adapted for internal use would probaby be an encouragement for Ubuntu 
deployment in companies large enough to have formal training programs and 
requirements.

Scot K