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.:: OSD change log ::.
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*1.0 identical to DFSG, except for addition of MPL and QPL to clause
10.
*1.1 added LGPL to clause 10.
*1.2 added public-domain to clause 10.
*1.3 retitled clause 10 and split off the license list,
adding material on procedures.
*1.4 Now explicit about source code requirement for PD software.
*1.5 allow "reasonable reproduction cost" to meet GPL terms.
*1.6 Edited section 10; this material has moved.
*1.7 Section 10 replaced with new "Conformance" section.
*1.8 Section 1: replaced "may not" with "shall not".
*1.9 Section 9: removed rationale referring to the action of the GPL as
Contaminat[ion].
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.:: Conformance to the OSD ::.
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(This section is not part of the Open Source Definition.)
We think the Open Source Definition captures what the great majority
of the software community originally meant, and still mean, by the
term "Open Source". However, the term has become widely used and
its meaning has lost some precision. The OSI
Certified mark is OSI's way of certifying that the license
under which the software is distributed conforms to the OSD; the
generic term "Open Source" cannot provide that assurance, but we
still encourage use of the term "Open Source" to mean conformance to
the OSD. For information about the OSI Certified
mark, and for a list of licenses that OSI has approved as conforming
to the OSD, see the OSD Certification Mark page.
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Debian developers in a month-long e-mail conference in June, 1997. He removed
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