The Scope of OSLiC

Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) is writing an Open Source License Compendium, which is opened for whole Open Source community ...

Large (IT) companies are particularily challenged by the quantity of licenses and their various versions. It is becoming quite expensive for each company to allocate and train employees as "Open Source License Experts" in order to ensure that the company acts according to those Open Source licenses touched by their projects. A better solution would be to receive ...

... something like a "compendium" which lists all relevant usage scenarios, and offers for each of these scenarios and for each of the major Open Source licenses something like a to-do list that describes what one has to do in order to fulfill the license conditions applicable to these usage scenarios.

Following the spirit of Open Source Software, DTAG wants to publish this compendium under the license 'Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany'. Moreover, DTAG wants to follow the rule ...

... 'publish early, publish often', and to develop this compendium together with the community.