[License]: need expert

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Mon Feb 11 02:59:09 UTC 2002


Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> said:
> And while you are at it, explain to them that trademarking "Open
> Source", if they reallly have done something so dumb, is at least a
> moral violation of everything that "open source" is about.

All registrations of "Open Source" for software (even as a certification 
mark) have been expressly rejected (for the obvious reasons), and 
abandoned by the applicants after they realized the impossibility of  
achieving registration.  OSI was hopeful that they could use the 
certification mark in much the way Sun now uses Java.  However, I agree 
with Alan that it is just plain silly.

Squeak is clearly "open source" software, regardless of whether or not 
OSI likes the Squeak-L license.




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