Stakeholder Consultation on Open Source Software and Standardisation

The European Commission, in its Communication on Setting out the EU approach to Standard Essential Patents, has committed to working with stakeholders, open source communities and standards development organisations. This survey intends to involve relevant communities and aims at providing input to the on-going study of the European Commission on the "Interaction between Open Source Software and FRAND licensing in Standardisation".

The study is important to provide hard facts evidence for the public policy measures in standardisation following the principles of the Communication on the ICT standardisation priorities for the Digital Single Market (2016) but also to contribute to the goals of the Communication on Setting out the EU approach to Standard Essential Patents (2017).

The objective of this study is to identify possible commonalities and barriers for interaction between standardisation and open source processes, i.e. it should clarify the role of open source in the context of standard setting, in particular its interplay with FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And Non-discriminatory) licensing.

We are interested in the assessment by experts involved in or responsible for standardisation and open source projects in your organization. Your individual answers to the questions of the survey will be treated with absolute confidentiality. We will only analyse data on an aggregated level and include it in the final report of this project to be published by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

We know about your time constraints, however, we would deeply appreciate your co-operation and your opinions in order to assess, in the first instance, areas, which require improved understanding and, secondly, possible development of framework conditions for a better collaboration between Open Source Software (OSS) and standardisation in the European Union.

The deadline for completing the survey is the 11th of January 2019.

The questionnaire can also be downloaded as PDF.

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