Key seems to be how one would interpret "version". Replace it with a synonym
like "variant" and this may be the intent.



On 5/13/11 9:50 AM, "Doug Cutting" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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