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Written by Martin von Willebrand
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 22:52 |
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Working as an outside counsel, it has happened to me more than once that our firm has been asked to legally validate an open source /FOSS package that somebody else already asked us to validate. The validation work, comprising of reviewing of a software packages technical and legal qualities, is conventionally done in each company separately, i.e. many times. The basic part of the work is very similar in every user (redistributor) entity. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 16:25 |
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Validos helps companies to use open source software in products and projects. Software is nowdays found also in different devices from instruments to televisions. Validos focuses currently on package level compliance and provides reports on compliance 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 thirteen members (since first of September 2010): the combined turnover of members is over five billion euros.
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. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 04 February 2011 18:44 |
