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Written by Martin von Willebrand
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 23:17 |
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The more members Validos has, the more useful the co-operation is for its members. Therefore, Validos is open for new companies and organisations.
The benefits and terms of the membership have been presented in the document approved by the association. The document is maintained by the Board of the association. The general benefits are:
- access to Validos knowledgebase (the validation results and documents of open source software packages),
- the possibility to order validation work (the membership fee contains mimimum amount of work, which can flexibly be used during six month’s period),
- access to Validos' member meetings: these handle for example matters relating to Validos and general open source compliance and
- membership can be terminated at any time.
The membership fee is based on the turnover of the company and it incudes an amount of compliance work, which can be used during a six month period. Thus each member participates to the increasing and maintaining of the knowledgebase which is at he heart of the co-operation. The membership fees are the following: |
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Written by Validos-tiimi
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Tuesday, 03 February 2009 11:54 |
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Questions and answers about Validos:
What is Validos?
What Information does Validos Produce?
Who Can Join as a Member?
What Benefits do the Members Get?
How Much Does the Membership Cost?
In What Way Validos Regards Open Source Community? |
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Written by Martin von Willebrand
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 14:59 |
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For explanation of some terms, see the Glossary, Sanasto (in Finnish)
VALIDOS' GENERAL INSTRUCTION FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF OPEN SOURCE PACKAGES BY COMPANIES
THREE STEPS INSTRUCTION:
- Follow the general instructions of Validos below in this document
- If the summary of all Validos reports (requires logging in) does not contain an "AR" marker for the relevant software, step 1 is enough
- If the summary of all Validos reports contains an "AR" marker, then you need to do steps 2 and 3 too
- Follow the OS-package specific instructions in the use instruction of the package (requires logging in)
- Section 3.1 of the use instruction, if you do not modify the code
- Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the use instruction, if you modify the code
- If the package has not yet been validated, ask for validation
- Include the document stated in section 3.3. of the use instruction, if any, in any redistribution as a part of your documentation and refer to it in your other documentation.
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Written by Martin von Willebrand
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 21:51 |
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The members of Validos are companies and other organisations who are benefiting of open source software in their activities. Validos offers meanst ot manage and increase the benefits of open source and thus increase the effectiveness of each member.
The current members are (2 February 2011):
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Written by Martin von Willebrand
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:24 |
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GPL-licensed software is evaluated on the basis of the same criteria than any other software packages. If licensing is clear which means that the conditions of the use of the software package can be clarified in a sufficienf manner, the software is considered to be valid. The requirements of all the suitable licenses for the software package have been summarized in the use instructions.
The GPL license is not automatically considered unvalid because the conditions of the different licenses meet the needs of different companies in different manners. However, Validos members have possibility to alter their views of the licenses. Member-specific definitions can be made so that the summary in the databank makes all GPL-licensed and similar software appear for the member not more risky than "possible risk" (in orange). Other definitions can also be made.
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