Joint Database on Open Source Compliance for Companies

Validos is a collaboration of companies and other entities in the technology field for open source compliance in business use. Validos focuses currently on package level legal validation of open source software packages and provides reports on validation and instructions for redistribution. Previously compliance work has been done separately in each company, i.e. many times, but now Validos enables the companies to do this only once and to share the results of validation within the collaboration.

For this purpose, a number of companies have established Validos ry, a Finnish registered association that manages the collaborative work and holds and shares the resulting database. The association has eleven members (since first of November 2009): the combined turnover of members is over one billion euro.

Since the effectiveness of the collaborative approach increases with the increase of the number of members, membership in Validos is open to new enterprises and other entities. If you are interested, please contact us.