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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate
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Horst Herb |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate |
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:41:16 +1000 |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:18, J Busser wrote:
> 1. It is touted as Open Source GPL-licensed however it was developed
> under the auspices of McMaster University. AFAIK, until the
> University formally divests itself, it will continue to retain
> intellectual property rights and could revoke the licence. Yet this
> is nowhere made clear.
Once GPL, always GPL. Cannot be revoked. If they are the copyright holders,
they can release a new branch under non-GPL / non-free licenses (only the
copyright holder can do that), but if you already have any version licensed
under GPL, this is a legally binding license entitling to do with it whatever
the GPL allows. Now and in all future.
Apart from that, David Chan is very committed to the free software paradigm -
they just started the project without much ties to the rest of the free
software world, and went through the learning process WHILE producing
something useful. But I know they have caught up and certainly know the ropes
now.
Also, OSCAR has substantially improved - both design and implementation wise.
It actually allows PostgreSQL backends now, works with Mozilla as a browser,
etc.
Horst
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, (continued)
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, J Busser, 2004/09/16
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, E Dodd, 2004/09/16
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, Karsten Hilbert, 2004/09/16
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, J Busser, 2004/09/16
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, E Dodd, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, Karsten Hilbert, 2004/09/19
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate,
Horst Herb <=
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, Karsten Hilbert, 2004/09/16
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, J Busser, 2004/09/17
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, Karsten Hilbert, 2004/09/20
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, scaredycat, 2004/09/11
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate, scaredycat, 2004/09/12