The customers of Alcatel-Lucent are mainly telecom operators. They just start in their RFP to ask questions on FOSS and ask list of FOSS in our products. They are far to ask things in SPDX format. The

Well the status for Alcatel-Lucent is 1) we officially use the standard naming of FOSS license internally, but perhaps have not changed all our processes, documents and the knowhow of ALU people on th

On Wednesday the OMG held a meeting on standardisation issues between organizations on FOSS issues. It was a kick-off meeting on the topic I would like to invite you to be part of the discussion if in

Dear all, The OMG (Object Management group) is organizing a workshop on standardizing open source governance practices on December 11 in Santa Clara (CA) http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/ca-13/spec

Alcatel-Lucent is using the SPDX standard internally and we have aligned all our internal documents on FOSS (including trainings) and our Databases on the license taxonomy of SPDX. So I guess you can

Dear all we are facing a very difficult issue: How to identify uniquely Software. In Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) we would like to link all our databases on SW (FOSS SW, proprietary SW, FOSS SW coming in prop

"Possibly" is not a term you want to use in a contract because it means something and its contrary. For instance we had problems of defining the i) definition of FOSS-for-contracts (I put the definiti

None of this expression is covering proprietary software delivered free of cost but with an EULA, except the last one but it is not very accurate Michel.Ruffin@..., PhD Software Coordin

Ok now we have an understanding, any suggestion ? Michel.Ruffin@..., PhD Software Coordination Manager, Bell Labs, Corporate CTO Dpt Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Tel +33 (0)

Mark I am not a lawyer but I have a different understanding of copyright law Attached is a document that explains the rationale behind why the Creative Commons Zero license was selected by the SPDX le

Well I have not really through how this extend to the SPDX standard. But if you look at Blackduck protext tool there is probably 1500 to 2000 licenses described, Palamida is around 1500 (if I am not m

We do not discuss or put into question the FSF and OSI definitions of FOSS (I know them by heart, I understand the philosophy behind them and respect them). We try to make a definition of what should

Michael, for me it is not a subject of discussion I am discussing with third party companies since 10 years on the subject and if you ignore open-source like license or “free proprietary” license, the

I agree for this particular topic (but it seems I am not part of this mailing list). But I am more ambitious, I have other initiatives in the pockets: having an open source DB describing the foss IP i

Before answering this, we need to determine in which group/mailing list we need to discuss this subject, I do not want to bother people not interested by this. Can we continue with SPDX list should we

As you say (I like the expression) my concern about this license is more like getting an eye brow raised; What does this license implies? If I want to export data from our DB, I will not make it publi

For the definition of FOSS (free and/or open source software (free is for free of cost here)) that we provide it is of course in the context of a contract negotiation. It is everything that do not go

Thank you very much for your quick answer and suggestions. My goal is not only to standardize the legal text of our FOSS clauses. It is also to 1) raise awareness about being able to provide the list

It is not a definite answer, but discussing with our people implementing the spec (marc-Etienne in cc)it seems that the checksums would be usefull to compare package between companies, but I do not se

I need to think a little bit about it with our lawyers on the potential consequences before answering you. What I want is freedom, to exchange information between companies without constraints. If we