[License-discuss] compliance resources

[Luis Villa]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Reincke, Karsten <k.reincke at telekom.de>wrote:

> First of all:
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> Many, many, thanks to Luis for initiating such "OSI" approved compliance
> pages! For companies and their managers it is very important to quickly get
> reliable answers which do not evoke "fundamental" costs. They get worry
> about complexitity and costs. Ever. So with respect to the issue to use
> open source software compliantly. Hence, it is very good that now also the
> OSI offers their statements! That enables the employees to convince their
> managers to use this software in a better way. The OSI is a very important
> legitimising voice for establishing tools and processes inside of a company.
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Glad you think it will be useful!


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> And then specificly:
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> Luis, I just updated the links of the OSCLiC and the OSCAd. For be able to
> insert stable links into the OSI wiki page, we now offer symlinks to the
> most current version of the OSLiC. So, it should no longer necessary to
> update the wiki page whenever we offer a new OSLiC release.
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Great!


> Perhaps, we can simplify the use of this OSI page by adding little
> descriptions of the whitepapers and documents. Moreover, perhaps we could
> ask the authors to generate little abstracts. For the OSLiC and the OSCAd I
> inserted such little describing addons. Please, take them as proposal and
> feel free to improve them.
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Yes, I think that is a good idea and would be very useful. I would welcome
others pitching in :)

Thanks!

Luis

To help myself answer that question I've put a list of relevant
> whitepapers/documents/etc. in the OSI wiki:
> http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/Process+and+Compliance+Resources
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> The page is still very much a work in progress but I'd welcome wiki-work
> to improve it/add links/clarify/etc.
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> [Think of this as sort of a companion to the tools page I posted about a
> while ago: http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/List+of+Licensing+Tools]
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