Re: OSI certification mark and BSD licence

[Francis Hunt]

At 08:45 22/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Software issued under a license that conforms to the OSD, *and* for which
source is made easily available ("easily" meaning in the manner of OSD #2),
is Open Source.

I completely agree and that is the point. The intention of the OSI certification mark is surely to convince people that the product it is associated with is "Open Source". Hence why does the use of the OSI certification mark not require source code distribution as well as an OSI approved licence?

yours

Francis

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