Teaching GnuCash?

[John Ralls]

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