BSD-like licenses and the OSI approval process
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Tue Oct 16 16:01:58 UTC 2007
Chris Travers scripsit:
> Does the OSI have any sort of trademark rights to the term "open
> source?"
No, definitively. No such trademark exists.
> So the alternative in your mind is to certify every reasonable BSDL
> variant individually? Or do we insist on PostgreSQL not being "Open
> Source?"
The former, I think. Yes, it's annoying; the alternative is still more
annoying. We can't legally protect the term "open source", but we can
in turn make life annoying for people who misuse it.
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"Because I just made that word up", the Master said wisely.
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