May I make a suggestion ?
Use FSF solutions, then you get none of this licensing crap .... just saying ;-)
Seriously, Reg, you care about a software licensing standard?
Yeah, we know: even the headline probably started you yawning, and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute's (ETSI's) quiet December announcement of a Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) Licensing Management effort doesn't seem that arresting. It was, however, important to network operators and admins, because if …
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Tuesday 9th January 2018 11:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Network functions virtualisation and "essential patents"
Is this an attempt to impede Open Source through onerous and expensive licensing issues. What commercial companies helped ETSI in drawing up the standard. Is this yet another attempt to sneak FRAND and software patents in the backdoor.
Essential patents .. "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in respect of ETSI standards"
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Tuesday 9th January 2018 18:04 GMT JulieM
Better Way, Innit
Licence management is indeed important.
We decided to insist on OSI-accredited licences as far as possible. It just makes everything easier that way. For one thing, there's no need to worry about staff copying anything from workstations, if there's nothing on there that anyone would object to them copying .....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
