[Openstandaarden] RAND licensing & OASIS

[Peter Strickx]

Peter,

Misverstand. Het was de bedoeling om OASIS als
'standaardenorganisatie' te erkennen maar met hun standpunt rond
RAND-licensing maken ze dat wel heel moeilijk. We gaan niet voor
een 'case by case' aanpak.

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Peter Strickx



On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:31:24 +0100, Peter Vandenabeele
<peter.vandenabeele at mind.be> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:39:52AM +0100, Peter Strickx wrote:
> > The PICTS (Permanent ICT Steering group) from the Belgian Federal
> > Government is on the verge of
> > accepting OASIS as a 'recognized Standards organization' (ie. standards
> > from OASIS would be 'recommended' standards and become mandatory
> > standards within a 3-6 month time frame). However, an essential element
> > in our 'standards policy' is the availability of  open source  and free
> > software implementations of  the approved standards (or at least the
> > possibility to have them available as open source/free software in the
> > future).  If the new  RAND licensing scheme hinders open source and/or
> > free software implementations we will no longer adopt OASIS standards as
> > 'recognized' standards within our organization.
> 
> Do I understand correctly that PICTS will:
> 
> * initially accept OASIS "in general"
> * case-by-case reject standards from OASIS that would not allow
>   FOSS implementations because certain parts do only allow RAND
>   implementations and do not allow Free SW implementations
> 
> Would it not be better to reject OASIS as a whole, in line with the
> request that was made by numerous Free SW and Open Source advocates ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
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