Re: Application compliance vs conformance

[Michael Schultheiss <schultmc@progeny.com>]

George Kraft IV wrote:
> "John R. Daily" wrote:
> > 
> > Comparing the definitions of compliant and conformant
> 
> It looks like I failed to pass along a piece of critical information to
> everyone.  The FSG board did not like the ambiguity of conformance versus
> compliance; therefore, we have canned "LSB Conformance" and have revitalized a
> more stringent "LSB Certification Pilot" that will have a definite start,
> middle, and end.
> 
> http://www.linuxbase.org/test/pilot/
> 
> In short, we now have:
> 
> 1) LSB Certification Pilot (runs until there is an actual certification program
> with policies, procedures, terms & conditions)
> 2) LSB Certification (third party testing)
> 3) LSB Compliance (self test)

While visiting http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ I noticed that The LSB 1.1 is
Final yet the definitions still include the compliance/conformance
ambiguity.  Are the definitions going to be updated to reflect the
change in terminology?

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