We are also about to start selling sticks and offering services. I am getting lots of experience teaching kids with Sugar too, although I'm not planning on doing that for pay in the immediate future, I'm volunteering on the pilots. Where are you located? We should see if there is a good way to work together. In this business its all about expanding the pie! Cheers, Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Russell Brown wrote: > My question is: am I allowed to make money from this? </div>Yes! The only restriction is the software licenses, which are all "GPL or less", and should have absolutely no impact on a distribution/support/training business.* We actively encourage people to start business distributing and supporting Sugar. Moreover, if you encounter difficulties in the process, we want to know about them and fix them, because we want other people to be able to do the same thing, all over the world. We have also been sketching a system in which a company like yours could be recognized and promoted by Sugar Labs. Good luck! --Ben *: so the only restriction is that if you modify Sugar, you have to make your modifications available as source code, so that we can integrate your changes upstream ... but really you'd want to do this anyway, to avoid the enormous workload of maintaining a private branch. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax