<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Check out companies already offering support contracts for FOSS tools, EnterpriseDB, 2nd Quadrant, Oracle (for MySQL), OpenGeo (Boundless), etc... I think most of them have contracts (or at least a Terms of Service document) available online.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>At the last FOSS4G in Nottingham, most vendor stands were companies offering commercial support for FOSS applications. Seemingly a growth industry - hopefully some funding goes back to the core development team, or at least the
product...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Brent Wood<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:43 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSGeo-Discuss] Sample Contract for Open Source Software Services<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5631143711"><div dir="ltr"><div>I hope to launch a start-up offering services based on some open source geospatial software in the next couple of months. I would like to know if anyone from the OSGeo community would be willing to share a sample contract for open source software services with me.</div>
<div> </div><div>I'd appreciate any help.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks.</div><div> </div><div>Landon</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>