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[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Yeh, and their time and skill and other resources they used up in
order to produced the media.


LibreOffice Documentation Team send their Guides off to Lulu online
Bookstore for them to print and sell.  A fair proportion of the
profits goes back to the team.  They also sell through the iStore (or
whatever) and Ubuntu Store and i think a couple other places for a
couple of quid.  Even though the printed guides cost £15 - £20 they
sell quite well.  Some people like to have something professionally
printed rather than use up their own toner/ink&paper etc.  It is not a
huge amount of money but it helps to cover things such as getting the
newer versions of guides into other stores.

A school district (or some sort of training organisation) in India
wrote and asked if they could modify (i think translate) the guides
and then print and sell some of them.  I think the hope was that if
they do sell some they might be able to cover the costs of the ones
they have to give away or sell at cost.  Something like that.

The general aim seems to be to allow and encourage that sort of thing
in order to reach a wider audience and increase market-share.

The GPL (ok, that is for software not documentation, obviously!)
allows for the idea that people need to make an income in order to
live.  Sadly i haven't the capacity to do this myself.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 6 February 2015 at 13:45, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi :)
>> People can sell Ubuntu Cds the only caveat is that they must ensure
>> the buyer is aware that the original source is freely available.
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>       In other words, they are selling the media, not the content.
>>
>>
>> On 6 February 2015 at 11:26, Alberto Salvia Novella
>> <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Alberto Salvia Novella
>>>> Non-comercial?
>>>
>>> Doug Smythies:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that is correct, and also after discussion in team meetings
>>>> and maybe here on-list (I don't recall and didn't search).
>>>>
>>>> Note that the non commercial license only applies to the
>>>> Canonical owned and maintained area of the site.
>>>>
>>>> The original areas of the site remain with the original license.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, I see: This is done with the intention of stopping people printing books
>>> as if they have done the work, while it's just the documentation that is
>>> freely available in the Internet.
>>>
>>> Since this documentation is specific for Ubuntu set up and the MAAS
>>> documentation is copyleft, there won't be any problem.
>>>
>>> It's the same as preventing people from selling Ubuntu CDs: only those who
>>> wouldn't know it's free would buy them from an intermediary.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
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