Best practices for software license management

Software license management is the process that ensures that the legal agreements that come with procured software licenses are adhered to.In a basic sense, it ensures that only legally procured licenses are deployed on systems.

Organizations spend a fortune on licenses every year, and a lack of management around it can result in heavy fines. In some cases, CIOs of certain organizations have been taken into custody for violating norms.

This article, provides the basic concept of how software license management works along with a process map.

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Open Source Compliance in the Application Development Space

This white paper will take an objective, neutral look at app development today and discuss open source license obligations that must be considered by app developers and app stores. We’ll highlight some of the compliance challenges and point out some of the resources available to assist those companies and app developers committed to respecting the open source community and fulfilling responsibilities.

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Understanding the Three Most Common Open Source Licenses

Understanding and interpreting open source licenses is not always an easy task. This guide at will help you understand: Common open source licenses; License interpretation guidelines; Tips for open source license compliance; and Resources to help you get started.

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ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance -- Aug 2011

• The high-level Empowered Committee, tasked with promoting semiconductor manufacturing in India, to submit its report to the Government after August.

• Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) has asked the Competition Commission of India to investigate the “potential anti-competitive conduct” of Facebook arising out of `Facebook Credits'.

• A Parliamentary panel has slammed the IT Department on the “under utilisation of outlay” for National e-Governance Plan.

• India had received the nod to introduce IDNs in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu.

• Mahindra Satyam slapped Rs 2,114-cr income-tax notice

• Telecom Commission has given its nod to imposing a uniform licence fee of 8.5% on all telecom operators as against operators currently paying between 6% and 10% of their annual revenues as licence fee.

• TRAI had suggested roll out obligation based on population whereby operators would be required to cover all areas with more than 10,000 people within two years and 2,000-5,000 people in four years.

• Infotech Dept exempts outsourcers from tough data privacy rules.

• Nearly 13 million subscribers have changed their service provider using the Mobile Number Portability facility since November 2010.

• According to TRAI the total wireless subscriber base increased from 840.28 million in May to 851.70 million at the end of June, a growth of 1.36%.