[Zope-dev] LICENSE.txt: license has been certified as Open So urce(tm)?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----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