Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-19 Thread balu raman
Proteus seems to have a dependency on Jess, the Rete engine from Sandia Lab. As far as my knowledge goes, which is outdated, Jess is not FOSS, may be free for academics. If I am not mistaken, you can still release Proteus as FOSS without Jess. balu raman, msee., ccp ryder brook pediatrics

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-19 Thread Hemant Shah
Balu, Good Sleuthing! Yes, Jess will NOT be distributed with the open source version. We have replaced Jess based inference tool with BeanShell based inference tool. This will come with a rule editing tool (Greed) which converts the specified rules into Java code. Since Proteus Inference tools

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-19 Thread balu raman
Hi Hemant Bhayya, Thanks. I can't wait to try out Proteus. - balu Hemant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Balu, Good Sleuthing! Yes, Jess will NOT be distributed with the open source version. We have replaced Jess based inference tool with BeanShell based inference

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-19 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
I do too! Nandalal Gunaratne MS FRCS MRACS --- Fred Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your application is sounding more and more exciting!! I look forward to your release! -FT On Dec 19, 2007 8:37 AM, Hemant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Balu, Good Sleuthing! Yes, Jess will

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-18 Thread Hemant Shah
Jose, Using Eclipse sounds like a great idea. Indeed, if I had launched this project in the last couple of years, Eclipse as a foundation for the Proteus IDE would have been the first choice. However, this project was started in early 2000 when Eclipse was firmly locked within the IBM fortress as

[openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-17 Thread Hemant Shah
Proteus (http://www.proteme.org) is an approach that allows authoring executable clinical processes and guidelines with decision support integrated within them. I am on the verge of making Proteus related tools available under an open source license. I need the advice of this community of open

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-17 Thread Molly Cheah
Here's the abstract of a paper presented at OSHCA2007 in May in KL. Legal issues impacting the use of open source software in health care by GK Ganesan Software relating to healthcare: an introduction to some legal issues This paper examines legal issues relating to the use of open source

Re: Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-17 Thread Tim Churches
Molly Cheah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the abstract of a paper presented at OSHCA2007 in May in KL. Legal issues impacting the use of open source software in health care by GK Ganesan This speaker admitted at the outset of his talk at the conference that he'd never considered open

Re: [openhealth] Open Sourcing of Proteus Tools

2007-12-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Hemant -- First, please do not invent your own license. We need yet another free / open source software license about as much as we need a toothache. Look at http://opensource.org/licenses http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html and