Yes, remind us again of why we are all here !!
Hear, Hear !! Harumph, Harumph!!
Along those same lines, wouldn't it be ironic (maybe smart) if some
WorldVistA member or group of members would apply to a grant from Gates
Foundation. I understand the request process there is reasonable, not
oner
The essential feature of the GNU General Public License (GPL) is a defensive
mechanism
intended to preserve and protect the integrity and status of GPL licensed
software as a
public resource against covert appropriation and dissemination as someone's
proprietary
body of work. Thus ideas of antib
It gets the name from hostname -s. In my system, that traces back
to /etc/hosts and to set the name to Morphix, for instance, this is what you
have to do in the file:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 Morphix.
I am impressed by Bhaskar's valient effort to
metaphorically immunize early against the use of the catchy
word "viral" . To carry the metaphor to Rabies, if you are
early enough with the "shots" , you can promote an antibody
response before the infectious agent really takes hold.
So this post
Comments below.
-- Bhaskar
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:54, Joel West wrote:
[KSB] <...snip...>
> * do you want a "viral" term or not, i.e. one that requires changes to
> be given back (GPL) or not (BSD, Apache)
> * do you want the "viral" clause to apply to new versions of the code
> (as say the L
Since I've done some research on open source licenses, I wanted to add my 2
cents worth.
The no brainer is to choose from the Open Source Initiative approved licenses,
which include the GPL, LGPL, Mozilla Public License, Apache, BSD and Common
Public License. The full list of 50+ can be found a
In using terms, everyone must be precise. In Crawford's responses he kept
mentioning VistA. VistA is the FOIA version of the VA product. Any vendor
can take that FOIA version and do anything they wish without concerns about
GPL since the VA FOIA VistA is not GPL. So when talking about a GPL ver
