-----Original Message----- From: Holger Blasum [mailto:holger@avendo.de] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 5:58 AM To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] LICENSE.txt: license has been certified as Open Source(tm)?

Hi,

zope is exciting. Closely before becoming too enamoured, let me ask a newbie question (possibly FAQ) for clarification on this (obvious) snippet...

LICENSE.txt

...

Zope Public License (ZPL) Version 1.0 -------------------------------------

Copyright (c) Digital Creations. All rights reserved.

This license has been certified as Open Source(tm).

(tm) - Uhh, well Open Source is not a trademark:

You're right.

"``Open Source'' is not and cannot become a trademark." Eric S. Raymond, President, President Board of Directors, OSI (OSI had previously applied for it) 16 June 1999 (http://www.opensource.org/press_releases/certified-open-source.html)

But maybe this when LICENSE.txt was written in the dark ages where OSI still applied for that trademark, so perhaps it was intended to mean "certified by OSI" ?

The license was written in Jan/Feb of 1999, a few months before it was determined that it was not a tm.

Or whom or what has been the certifier mentioned in the license (I feel not sure whether par. 5 would pass very strict criteria, but on the other hand par. 7 alleviates it) ?

Bruce Perens (the other half of OSI) was our 'certifier'. Our license should be corrected. -Michel