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Written by Martin von Willebrand   
Tuesday, 06 January 2009 23:17

The more members Validos has, the more useful the co-operation is for its members. Therefore, Validos is open for new companies and societies.

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 flexible be used during six month’s period),
  • access to Validos' member meetings where is handled for example matters relating to co-operation and controlled use of open source
  • membership can be terminated at any time (at some stage new members will probably be determined a resignation period).

The membership fee is based on the turnover of the company and it contains certain amount of validation work, which the member is entitled to use during a six month's period for the validation of open source software packages. Each member participates to the increasing and maintaining of the knowledgebase which guarantees the functioning of the co-operation. The membership fees are the following:

Yearly Turnover          
Validation work(minimum)               
Membership Fee per Month (excl. vat) 

0-2 Million euro

 2hours/6months 60,- euro
2-10 Million euro 6hours/6months 150,- euro
10-100 Million euro 3days/6months 360,- euro

over 100 Million euro

 6days/6months

740,- euro

Value added tax is added to membership fees, as applicable. Group companies may benefit of the membership of a member in the highest turnover. Validation work focuses on license management and legal validation of software packages and the related instructions for redistribution and other use

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