[triage] Re: For Approval: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

Zak Greant zak at greant.com
Sat Nov 17 20:04:32 UTC 2007


Namaste Donovan, Greetings All,

On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:36PDT (CA), Donovan Hawkins wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>
> > http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html
> ...
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Open+Source+Initative+Approved 
> +Open+Source+Software%22
>
> I couldn't help but notice that "Initiative" is missing an 'i', but  
> then I also noticed that the same mistake is made several places on  
> the OSI's Certification Mark page as well. It seems the mistake has  
> replicated, based on the search you provided.
>
> I assume this is not some clever legality to avoid using the OSI's  
> proper name in the notices or something (especially when both  
> spellings are used), though it does bring up the curious question  
> of whether the typo must be maintained by users of the mark.

If this issue had not been corrected, I would have created a new  
ticket in component 'opensource.org'

Cheers!
--zak






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