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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:29:56 +0300
From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com>
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Subject: Re: typo in the license ?
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On 2025-Oct-22, Álvaro Herrera wrote:

> 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.

By the way, here's the email Dave sent to them:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2009-November/000930.html
Note he consistently used <ORGANISATION>; there were no dollar signs and
there was no ORGANIZATION.  So maybe OSI saw ORGANISATION and though "oh
look, let's fix this typo", changed the first one, and then forgot to
continue reading, because he got distracted changing the < > to dollar
signs.

Somebody joked downthread about Compaq acquiring Digital and failing to
change some license text correctly, in pretty much the same way that OSI
appears to have failed to Americanise the spelling of the Postgres license ...
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2009-November/000931.html


The license was reported approved three months later:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2010-February/thread.html

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"Hay que recordar que la existencia en el cosmos, y particularmente la
elaboración de civilizaciones dentro de él no son, por desgracia,
nada idílicas" (Ijon Tichy)