> Well, it says on the opensource.org home page that the OSD "sets the > conditions for use of this mark". It's true that the "branding program" > page then says that the OSD itself is irrelevant and all entities that write > their own licenses need to ask the OSI for permission to call them "Open > Source"
hrm... i was under the impression that the holders of the certification mark for 'open source' were spi, not osi. am i wrong? or has spi granted osi the right to make the open source certification? or is there some other factor that gives them that right? or has osi just never made a decision heinous enough for spi to step in and assert their right over the certification mark? i suppose it's not that last, or there would've been outrage by now, but if it really is the case then something should be done, or spi runs the risk of the certification mark falling into the public domain. that would suck, because there are (i think) lots of people who'd just love to put the mark on their shrinkwrap licence and are only prevented from doing so by the certification mark. --phouchg "Reasoning is partly insane" --Rush, "Anagram (for Mongo)" PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~phouchg/pgpkey.txt
