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Applicant: The supplier who is in the process of having a product certified.
Certification: The proof of compliance by some agreed measure. Sometimes there is not a total proof, but a warranty. Additionally, there may be a logo or mark that can be used in association with a certified product.
Certification Agreement: The agreement between the applicant and the Certification Authority, which defines the certification service and contains the legal commitment by the applicant to the conditions of the certification service.
Certification Authority: The organization officially sanctioned by the Free Standards Group to manage the day-to-day operations of the LSB Certification program.
Certification Register: A record of all certified products, which is maintained by the Certification Authority and made publicly available via the Internet.
Certification System Deficiency: An agreed error in the certification system, which is inhibiting the certification process. The certification system includes both the certification process and information systems provided to implement certification. A Certification System Deficiency is one possible outcome of a problem report.
Certified Product: A product or product family that has successfully completed the certification process and for which the supplier of such product or product family has been notified in writing by the Certification Authority that certification has been achieved.
Compliance: A claim of conformance.
Conformance: Requirements are stated in a specification. They are an agreed set of rules defining what it means to meet the specification.
Conformance Requirements: A definition of the mandatory requirements a product must meet and any options it must implement in order to be considered conformant.
Conformance Statement: The documented set of claims describing precisely the way in which a product meets the conformance requirements, including which optional features are supported. It provides a precise identification of the certified product for which conformance is guaranteed. It also includes details on the specific configuration used to validate conformance, in sufficient detail to enable the results of any applicable tests to be reproduced.
Free Standards Group, The: A nonprofit corporation organized to accelerate the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the development, application, and promotion of standards.
Interpretation: Decision made by the Specification Authority that elaborates or refines the meaning of a Free Standards Group specification or a standard or specification referenced by a Free Standards Group specification. An Interpretation is one possible outcome of a problem report.
LSB: Linux Standard Base. This is a historical name, and does not limit the LSB Written Specification to any specific operating system.
LSB Application: LSB Application certification is for applications conforming to the LSB Written Specification. LSB Applications are the consumers of the services provided by LSB Runtime Environments.
LSB Development Environment: LSB Development Environment certification is for platforms on which LSB-conformant applications can be built from source code. Platforms providing an LSB Development Environment need not provide an LSB Runtime Environment.
LSB Internationalized Runtime Environment: LSB Internationalized Runtime Environment certification is for platforms providing services that conform to the LSB and OpenI18N specifications. The platform must be registered as conformant to the LSB Runtime Environment product standard prior to or concurrent with an LSB Internationalized Runtime Environment Product Standard registration.
LSB Runtime Environment: LSB Runtime Environment certification is for platforms providing services that conform to the LSB Written Specification.
OpenI18N: The Free Standards Group Open Internationalization Initiative. This was formerly known as the LI18NUX specification.
Platform: An operating system environment. It may consist of a complete operating system with kernel, libraries, and utilities; it may also be a hosted environment or emulation that provides the equivalent functionality.
Problem Report: A question of clarification, intent, or correctness of the specification(s), test suites, or certification system, which, if accepted by the Specification Authority, will be resolved into an Interpretation, Test Suite Deficiency, or Certification System Deficiency, respectively.
Product Standard: The document in which conformance requirements are specified for a particular type of product, and against which products may be certified in the program. There will be one product standard for each type of product to be certified, that is, one for LSB Runtime Environment, LSB Application, LSB Development Environment, and LSB Internationalized Runtime Environment, respectively. Apart from the LSB Internationalized Runtime Environment product standard, there will be a set of such product standards for each architecture specified by the LSB Written Specification.
Registration Form: A form completed by the applicant to apply for certification for a particular product. The form contains information on the applicant and the product to be certified.
Specification Authority: A Free Standards Group workgroup, which is responsible for developing, maintaining, and interpreting the applicable Free Standards Group specification(s).
Supplier: A product vendor who is interested in, is applying for certification in, or has certified a product in the Free Standards Group certification program. During the period in which a supplier is going through the certification process to get a product certified, the supplier is referred to as an applicant.
Test Suite Deficiency: An agreed error in a test suite, which is causing it to produce an incorrect result code that impacts certification. A Test Suite Deficiency is one possible outcome of a problem report.
Test Suite Maintenance Authority: The organization(s) sanctioned by the Free Standards Group to maintain the test suites.
Trademark License Agreement: The agreement between the supplier and the Free Standards Group, which contains the legal commitment by the supplier to the conditions of use of the Free Standards Group trademark and the Free Standards Group certification program.