While looking around for some PDL-licensed content on www.openoffice.org, I
stumbled onto this page: <http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html>.
I find this statement, at the bottom of the page, quite challenging:
• Certified by OSI(<http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php>)
as open-standard compliant, and the
first software package in the world to use OASIS OpenDocument Format
(ISO/IEC 26300) as its native file format
Minor: The links in "OASIS OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300)" are all about
the OASIS specification and the ODF TC, not ISO/IEC 26300).
More problematic: I don't think OSI certifies anything. It most definitely
does not certify products.
does assess whether standards are open standards. There is an OSI web page on
Open Standards at <http://opensource.org/osr-intro>. This section provides
criteria for assessing levels of compliance by which *standards* are deemed to
be open standards. These are the requirements: <http://opensource.org/osr/>.
There is apparently not any record of OSI having certified any standards as OSR
Conformant. I also have no idea whether OASIS International has self-certified
the OASIS OpenDocument standard(s) as OSR Compatible. I am reasonably
confident that ISO/IEC JTC1 has done no such thing with respect to
International Standard 26300:2006.
I hesitate to touch that page. I think it is fine to say this much:
• The first software package in the world to support as its native
format the OASIS Standard Open Document Format for Office Applications and the
corresponding International Standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006.
Unless there is an authoritative reference to ODF being established as either
OSR Conformant or OSR Compatible, I would leave that alone. The fact that
Apache OpenOffice is open source under an OSI accepted license should be good
enough, after all.
- Dennis
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