Hi Sam and Thomas and others! Just a quick followup - a while ago you mentioned that you were thinking of uploading your Microsoft code to the openEHR website.
Are you still considering doing this? I would absolutely like to see what you have done. Even if you could only upload a few samples to illustrate what is working well, and what areas are not working so well, that would be excellent. Regards Gunther -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Beale Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:48 AM To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: Microsoft/NHS common health interface and openEHR datatypes Grahame Grieve wrote: > I'm a long way behind, and playing email catch up. > > just a technical clarification: > > > last year - it is problematic, as it prevents you from using well-known > > bits of other open source code, because it is primarily designed to a) > > avoid encumbrance of the code by other licenses of any kind and b) > > ensure that changes to code in the Eclipse code base can be done without > > reference to anyone else. We couldn't even use it for the openEHR > > (GPL'd) java kernel because the latter uses libraries that wouldn't be > > allowed by the EPL. The EPL induction process is also painful - it takes > > weeks/months to get your code 'reviewed' by Eclipse people to certify it > > as 'unencumbered'...meanwhile it will have changed.. > > I don't think (a) is a property of the EPL license itself. But > it is certainly exactly how the Eclipse Foundation vets code > that will be posted to the official eclipse cvs. > I'm not trying to be critical as such - its just that Rong found code that we would be prevented from using if we converted the license to EPL. In the end, I don't think I am really convinced by the need to have a special license for the Eclipse project; there are clearly some license that the code can't use, but it seems unrealistic to me to try and make it one. But prepared to be shown the light.... - thomas _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
