Teaching GnuCash?

[Geert Janssens]

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.
> 
> Thanks
> Cristian
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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.

On the other hand, your user is invited of course to share her course material 
with the other GnuCash users :) Since GnuCash is an open project, it 
flourishes more of more information about it is shared. But she is totally 
free to decide if she wants to do that or not.

I'm already very pleased to hear she likes the project enough to go and help 
others work with it or use it as a tool to teach about accounting or whatever 
she has in mind.

Geert