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: "``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" ? 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) ? Again let me emphasize that I think Digital Creations is doing a really cool job; this is not necessarily political overcorrectness (but might be of some importance for the marketing guys if we go for it), just being curious, ;-) -- Holger Blasum 80336 Muenchen, Germany
Hi Holger. You are correct that the (tm) was put in there a _long_ time ago, when it seemed that they might be able to get a trademark for it. As for "who" certified it, it was Bruce Perens, one of the original founders of OSI. We believe we have adapted (from Apache's license) one of the broadest and simplest licenses in this space. One of the problems with updating the license (even to remove the tm!), is that people start to become suspicious that over time we intend to "tighten" the license, which we do not intend to do. Still, pehaps a minor tweak in the near future is in order :-). -----Original Message----- From: holger@zentral.iserver.net [mailto:holger@zentral.iserver.net]On Behalf Of Holger Blasum 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: "``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" ? 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) ? Again let me emphasize that I think Digital Creations is doing a really cool job; this is not necessarily political overcorrectness (but might be of some importance for the marketing guys if we go for it), just being curious, ;-) -- Holger Blasum 80336 Muenchen, Germany _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
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