[Board] OGC compliance certificates for OSGeo projects?

[Jo Walsh]

I think it's worth bumping this discussion to the dedicated standards list.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2008-September/000269.html
links to the OGC-OSGeo MOU.

" For those reference implementations pass OGC Compliance test procedures, and
2) are selected for use by OGC as a reference implementation (or are among the
two additional tests used by OGC to validate the Compliance test for
public use),
the OGC will waive the Trademark License fee associated with Compliance
certification"

Was that signed as-is? Does this help at all? There are likely grounds
for friendly negotiation.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Daniel
Morissette<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> I had the same questions for MapServer, we have run it through some of the
> CITE tests in the last releases and would be ready to get certificates from
> OGC, but I would like the certificates to be assigned to OSGeo and not
> Mapgears. Mapgears could "sponsor" the certificate fees, at least for the
> first year or two, since we had a client funding the certification work, but
> how to proceed is not clear to me either.
>
> It would be great to come up with a standard procedure for all OSGeo
> projects that are getting OGC certification.
>
> Daniel
>
> Jens Fitzke wrote:

>> All,
>>
>> deegree (OSGeo project in incubation) is certified to be compliant
>> against some Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications. It is
>> planned to apply for certification for a couple of interfaces (e.g.
>> Web Feature Service). Unfortunately the OGC charges certification with
>> a yearly fee depending on the total gross annual revenue of a company.
>> Since deegree is a project rather than the product of a company, I
>> wonder if OSGeo maintains some kind of Memorandum of Understanding
>> with the OGC to receive discount on certification fees. Alternatively,
>> is there funding available to sponsor OGC certification for OSGeo
>> projects? The amount to be considered is about 200US$ per certificate.
>>
>> There is no problem for lat/lon to "sponsor" the certificate fee, but for
>> transparency reasons I'd rather like an Open Source-aware solution. From
>> Raj we
>> already got the information that in general there is no special procedure
>> for
>> Open Source projects. But perhaps for OSGeo projects?
>>
>> Details can be found on http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance#products.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jens

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