[OSGeo-Standards] Re: [Board] OGC compliance certificates for OSGeo projects?

[Raj Singh]

That's the text that ended up in the final version of the MOU.  
Unfortunately MapServer doesn't qualify for free certification as it's  
not a Reference Implementation for any particular standard, and it's  
not currently one of the 1st three to pass beta conformance tests  
(although SPS 1.0 and WCS 1.1.1 still need a 3rd implementation).

I need official verification, but I'm pretty sure we'd be happy to  
issue a certificate to OSGeo for Mapserver.

---
Raj


On Jul 15, at 6:01 PM, Jo Walsh wrote:

> 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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>>
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>> Daniel Morissette
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