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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: typo in the license ?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:19:45 +0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2025-Oct-22, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:

> Greetings from pgconf eu 2025 , Riga, Latvia!
> 
> While attending Karen Sandler's presentation on : The Foundation of Open
> Source: Why Software Freedom? , I just looked up the license here :
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/ and then here :
> https://opensource.org/license/postgresql
> 
> the variable $ORGANIZATION is spelled as ORGANIZATION and further below
> as ORGANISATION.

Yes, but:

1. this is a problem in the OSI website, not in the Postgres website or
licensing file.

2. note that this file is not a license, but a license template.  If you
want to use this license, you're supposed to replace those keywords with
the name of your organization.  I would think that if you use the template
and replace $ORGANIZATION with a name but fail to replace $ORGANISATION
with the same name, then your lawyer is not worth very much.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"La primera ley de las demostraciones en vivo es: no trate de usar el sistema.
Escriba un guión que no toque nada para no causar daños." (Jakob Nielsen)

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