News
- 20130420: initial setup following the proposals of the European Legal and Licensing FSFE Workshop in Amsterdam
OSCAd Specific Disclaimer
The OSLiC and the OSCAd are only dealing with prototypic use cases. If you feel, that your specific case can't be specified by the OSLIC or is irregularly covered by one of the cases (false positives), please contact your legal expert. If you feel that your specific case is irregularly not covered by our taxonomy (false negative), contact us, please!
The OSCAd Manifesto
Mission:
Let the Open Source Compliance Advisor become the interactive version of the OSLiC for enabling its requestors to use Open Source Software compliantly. Particularly it shall ...
- support Open Source users to act according to the Open Source License requirements without having to become license experts themselves
- offer strongly reliable and quickly accessible instructions (to-do lists) how to fulfill a touched Open Source license
Motto:
It's better to obtain one reliable way through the jungle of open source licenses than to get lost in search for the best solution
Principles:
Focus on answering the request: As an interactive version of the OSLiC, the OSCAd shall offer the most simple ways to deliver license fulfilling to-do lists as answer to the question: What shall I do for acting in accordance to the licenses of the open source software I want to use?
- Let the OSLiC do the intellectual work: As an interactive version of the OSLiC, it is not the task of OSCAd to discuss and legitimate the license fulfilling steps. All these details are explained in the PDF version of the OSLiC.
Historical Background:
The OSLiC was presented on the European Legal and Licensing Workshop 2013 in Amsterdam. It was very welcomed. But the very benevolent feedback of this meeting also expressed the need to have an interactive version of the OSLiC instead of being thrown back to the slightly unwieldy pdf version. The OSCAd seizes this idea.