First I Would like enlighten that when I speak on the SPDX or FSFE mailing list I speak for the Alcatel-Lucent company; I check before with our FOSS executive committee that I can say things (in most

Dear all, once again on a different topic within our current effort in implementing the SPDX standard. Here it is a licensing issue. I am not very comfortable with the licensing issue for the data whe

So Bradley, what is your suggestion for me to try to standardize these FOSS clauses. What organization? I have tried SPDX, I have been advised to go to FSFE legal network. I have join the FSFE legal n

You are right it is FTFE legal network. If I provided our FOSS clause to SPDX it was illustrate the use case, I know that the discussion on this subject should be in FTFE mailing list. By the way with

Well, today we solve more or less this issue by requesting the URL where the FOSs can be downloaded, so URL + name + version number determine the FOSS used. It is not perfect but I never manage a good

So far our FOSS clauses are not aligned on the SPDX standard (we are already happy when suppliers can comply to our requirements without too much discussion so we did not formalize things too much) Wh

Gary, I think in my previous mail I expressed our use case: 1) getting information from our suppliers on FOSS included in their products in order to respect license obligations and to provide this to

No ALU has a DB with 5000 entries for open source maintained since 2002 describing IPR issues. Since 2007 we are requesting from all our suppliers the list of FOSS coming with their products with lice

Dear all As you probably noticed Alcatel-Lucent is trying to implement the SPDX standard. We have an internal database on FOSS IP issues that has been created in 2002. and we are trying to implement a

Phil and all, I know the SPDX mailing list is not the best mailing list to do this request but I would like to launch a new initiative on FOSS governance standardisation, can someone tell me what is t

The problem is that except for licenses like GPL or Apache2 a lot of licenses MIT, BSD, Apache1.1 contain a part which is different from one license to another (such as the copyright and for old BSD t