OSI certification mark and BSD licence

[John Cowan]

Francis Hunt scripsit:

> I completely agree and that is the point. The intention of the OSI 
> certification mark is surely to convince people that the product it is 
> associated with is "Open Source". Hence why does the use of the OSI 
> certification mark not require source code distribution as well as an OSI 
> approved licence?

Ah, now I understand.  OSI members, this is trivial but important.
The page http://opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.php actually
says that if something is licensed under an OSI-certified license,
it can use the mark.  It doesn't say that the software itself
has to conform to the OSD, only its license.  In particular, it doesn't
force the author to make source code available!

Pkease fix ASAP.

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