-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all,
The OpenGALEN ontology / terminology is open source under something approximating the BSD license. The license does not restrict commercial use. Our main desire is to enable an opensource, description logic based, computable ontology, rather as Phillipe has called for. We have, therefore, open sourced the OpenGALEN ontology itself in unrestricted form. Note however that the open source distribution, available from www.opengalen.org, is for the sources to that KB and not to any form of compiled object you can actually meaningfully interact with directly. That's because a dynamic instance only makes sense in the context of a particular server implementation. So, you need client compilation tools and a terminology server encapsulating a description logic module... The client tools to maintain, compile or examine the KB are now open sourced also, from www.topthing.com, but they are necessarily not licensed for commercial use. This is a constraint placed on us by CinCom who control the distribution rights to the 3rd party software (Visualworks) required to run the tools. Finally, the only living instance of an OpenGALEN compliant terminology server is strictly commercial (from www.kermanog,com) - though not, as it happens, very expensive. Additionally, the specification for a compliant OpenGALEN server is open, so there are no barriers (apart from time and money) to somebody building another one. OpenGALEN itself would be delighted to see an open source one. If memory serves, the OMG TQS specification was drawn up in detailed consultation by Harold Solbrig and the main technical folk of the day at GALEN. The original TQS specification was, I think, a fairly cut-down subset of the OpenGALEN Terminology Server API specification at that time. I'm not sure what the relationship is now between the Kermanog server and the current OMG specification, other than that I would expect that the kermanog server supports (and the OpenGALEN spec requires) substantially more than is called for in the OMG specification. regards, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Jeremy Rogers MRCGP OpenGALEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengalen.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBO7iPylLurXGRoC3KEQJ32gCg6/W6FZkcgsYbJ77W38poSW8Sn2QAoMoO HR9MxHRbdb+xpLntmcHCyRcD =s/nI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
