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.
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