Subject: The Open Source Initiative needs your help From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:48:39 GMT Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Mikko Rauhala) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Old-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:19:37 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Xref: cyclone.swbell.net comp.os.linux.announce:3567 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Open Source Initiative needs your help. The Open Source certification mark is a valuable tool for turning on everybody interest in software on to our way of doing things. But for it to keep working, we have to make sure it doesn't get legally diluted. (This is a legal requirement; if we don't enforce the mark, we lose it.) We're a handful of unpaid volunteers. There are a lot of potential diluters out there. We need you to help us keep an eye on them. If you see the term `Open Source' (or even the lower-case `open-source') being used to describe software with distribution conditions that don't fit the Open Source Definition, please inform us at mark-misuse@opensource.org All the misuses we've seen so far are accidental. We gently set those people straight. In the process, we try to educate them and bring them fully into the open-source community. If there is ever deliberate or malicious abuse, we will be ready to do what is necessary on behalf of the community. Thanks in advance. - -- Eric S. Raymond The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNmbrGFrUI/eHXJZ5AQGXPwQAszpIGeQE6YMeHvlgKCUm285yTsaR84kj K0ZHh6Eu50kpqIfNI3kuJt9ufqM+jPZhiYxNFdT+BtcbEqPGaGLdrD1xqAM6gVY+ 6Ht90AzHrdiwx2Tdlpg1oZo32obiWHLgb5eO4rOeQkmcmmuonKRKb1yNGagnhmbZ a6y3SgRqOoI= =pLE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----