On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote: > What happened to drugref.org ? It got started and technically bootstrapped by a visioneer.
It got taken up and put to use by one other visioneer (OSCAR) - which doesn't follow a particularly transparent and open process regarding changes and modifications made. Canadian data was put into the drugref structure. The license of which is unclear. At least *I* have no idea where I could download Canadian data for use with drugref under a license that permits me to do so. No one else (to my knowledge) expended effort to put *content* into drugref. As is not unusual with open *content* projects. The one notable exception being Wikipedia. The best counter-example being freedb.org (open-cddb). GNUmed is still planning to use the drugref structure if and when it acquires a credible source of raw data. If the license allows it we will make the data available openly. The world isn't really lacking visioneers of which only very few are needed. It is lacking grunt workers who take ideas into production. People like Syan Tan. And all the others whom I don't know about/forgot to mention. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
