Re: Self-certification

2001-10-03 Thread Forrest J Cavalier III
> > These are good suggestions. They will be turned into reality with the > greatest alacrity if you make them changes yourself and submit them to > us. Proposed "consumer-centric" index.html for www.opensource.org is attached. Comments very much encouraged, on-list or in private. Forrest T

Re: Self-certification

2001-10-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Forrest J. Cavalier III writes: > opensource.org has always been laid out as a website for > producers. (I think it sort of invites you to write your own > license, based on the ordering and wording of links.) But > isn't the purpose of a mark to inform consumers, not producers? > > Perhap

Re: Self-certification

2001-09-26 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
> > This is the problem Russel Nelson and I are investigating in our > discussion of section 2 of the OSD. Right. I didn't see you discuss that the wording for appplying the mark needs to be on the other web page, not just in OSD #2. (And maybe if the change was there, you would not even have t

Self-certification

2001-09-26 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
rk on any software that is distributed under an OSI-approved license." I think there is a consensus forming that the requirements for self-certification must be amended to require OSD #2 explicitly. Otherwise, someone can self-certify a binary-only distribution under MIT, for example, k