BSD-like licenses and the OSI approval process

[John Cowan]

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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Great World eons longer than Extaboulism."
"Why is that?" the woman inquired.
"Because I just made that word up", the Master said wisely.
        --Kehlog Albran, The Profit             http://www.ccil.org/~cowan