This is an Openbravo company statement regarding its vision and commitments towards open source and the open source projects that is currently leading, Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS. We think that it is important that customers, community members and people around Openbravo projects have a clear vision of our involvement and commitments towards Openbravo ERP and other Openbravo projects.

Openbravo was born as an open source project and some of its values are deeply rooted in the company. This is a summary of the values that we believe in:

• Transparency: We think that transparency is key when you are working on an open source project and it is fundamental to boost collaboration among different project members.
• Openness: We believe in open standards, open protocols and formats, and open source as a more efficient way of developing, operating and integrating software solutions.
• Collaboration: We are open to any party that wants to collaborate with us, whether they are individuals, companies or institutions. We strongly believe in using cooperative ways of building business solutions.
• Meritocracy: We believe we should gain people's respect and recognition due to our work. We shall always make sure that everybody has access to our open resources on an equal basis and we will accept contributors based on the merit of their work and their skills.
• Leadership: We lead the Openbravo ERP and POS projects - and potentially other future related solutions - leveraging our community through the coordination and management of processes instead exercising them through authority.
• Excellence: We put maximum effort, dedication and care in everything that we do. We always strive for excellence.
• Gratitude: We are grateful for the active involvement and interest of our Community and for every contribution that we receive, regardless of origin, motivation, size and type.

• Open Source: A functional version of our software is always published under an open source license. Our goal is to enable any person with the required skills to install, configure and use Openbravo ERP and POS in a production environment.
• Open access to the development trunk: We guarantee ready access to the main development trunk for everyone. Commit access is provided to all people that have demonstrated technical skills.
• Open Documentation: We will offer free product documentation for Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS to anyone. We believe that good documentation is a key factor to success for any open source project. We will keep investing in documentation and we hope that our community will continue helping us in this important area.
• Infrastructure: We take the responsibility for providing the infrastructure that we deem necessary to make Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS succeed as open source projects, and to support a vibrant community around them. That includes the software development infrastructure, like bug tracking or source control systems, the hardware to operate them and the administration of all these services.
• Legal defence: Openbravo is committed to defend Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS in the event of any claim or infringement by third parties.
• Attribution: Openbravo is committed to recognize people's contributions to its products. All the contributor's names are included as authors in the source code files that they create. Additionally, all project's contributors are listed in the contributor.txt file.
• Intellectual Property: Openbravo is committed to respect other parties' intellectual property rights. We will not knowingly infringe on other people's rights and we will take any reasonable steps to correct any unintentional violation as soon as it is discovered.

Additionally, Openbravo can and will at its own discretion devote resources to other areas that we identify as critical for the success of our company, like giving assistance to Openbravo users in our forums, organizing an Openbravo Conference on a periodic basis, or any additional action that we consider necessary.

As the originator of the Openbravo ERP and POS projects, Openbravo is strongly committed to funding the open source projects that it leads. As of February 2008, Openbravo has already invested more than 60,000 men hours in the development of open sourced software.

Openbravo is a for profit organization. Its business model is based on selling high-added value services to customers and partners installing, deploying and operating Openbravo solutions. Today, these services include second level support, custom development, training, specialized consulting, and Openbravo ERP Professional Subscription, a commercially supported subscription service for the open source Openbravo ERP.

In order to develop and support these services, Openbravo develops additional tools and infrastructure that make the operation of Openbravo solutions more efficient. Openbravo reserves the right to give access to these tools and infrastructure on a commercial basis to its customers only, as long as doing so does not infringe any of the above commitments.