From joao at bondis.org Fri Apr 22 18:56:56 2016
From: joao at bondis.org (=?utf-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Damas?=)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:56:56 +0200
Subject: [opensource-wg] Is anyone here familiar with this?
Message-ID: <49D90D69-955C-4CB9-8DAC-133036B97A6D@bondis.org>
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/04/anti-innovation-eu-excludes-open-source-from-new-tech-standards/
ICT standardisation requires a balanced IPR [intellectual property rights] policy, based on FRAND licensing terms.
FRAND licensing?the acronym stands for "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory"?is incompatible with open source, which will therefore find itself excluded from much of the EU's grand new Digital Single Market strategy.
Is this simple stupidity or is there some old-fashioned wrong-doing being perpertraded?
Anyone familiar with this process in this list who could provide a bit more insight?
Joao
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