Yes, but there's an "is" earlier in the sentence.

Doug
On May 13, 2011 3:44 PM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought the word "comprising" meant includes, not is.
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "EMC Greenplum HD Community Edition - The Community Edition is a 100
>> percent open source certified and supported version of the Apache Hadoop
>> stack comprising HDFS, MapReduce, Zookeeper, Hive and HBase."
>>
>> Here "certified" is probably just intended to mean that the software
>> uses a "certified" open source license, e.g., listed at
>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/. However they should say that this
>> "includes" or "contains" the various Apache products, not that it "is"
>> them.
>>

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