On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2010, Cristian Marchi wrote: >> I've received today a request from an Italian GnuCash user. She wants to >> teach how to use GnuCash in a class and she asks if it's required some >> permission to do that; so I'm asking to developers if there are problems >> of any kind in this situation. >> >> If I remember right Valdis Vītoliņš was involved in a course about >> GnuCash at the beginning of this year. >> > > GnuCash is free software licenced under the GPL. The GPL is a licence focused > on what you can do to the code. It basically allows you to do anything with > it > as long as you licence your derived works under the GPL also (and in > compliance with the GPL, provide the source files for your changes to anyone > who asks for it). > > Teaching a course about GnuCash is not related to changing the code, so the > GPL doesn't restrict you in any way to do so. The GnuCash project doesn't > have > any other contracts or licence requirements in place, so effectively your > Italian user can go ahead and teach GnuCash. >
Not quite true: The documentation is licensed under the Gnu Free Documentation License, which is included in the file "COPYING -DOCS" in the root directory of the documents tree. It's linked to in the "Legal Notice" section of "About This Document" chapter of the Guide. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
