Todd,

I'd just like to comment here that I am quite
impressed with the feat you and your team achieved
with the CPRS rewrite.  I have been working with the
CPRS in Delphi.  There must be at least 30,000 lines
of code.  I wouldn't want to wade into that mess!

If Medsphere chooses to make that effort available to
the community, that will be fantastic!  As you know,
there has been hard feelings against Medsphere over
the copywrite application for the "OpenVistA".  But my
philosophy is to not take business decisions
personally.  But it sounds like Medsphere is wanting
to contribute to the community, and that should go a
long way to smoothing waters.  I hope when this is all
over that we will all be comfortible with each other. 
We're too small a group to hold a grudge.

Thanks for all that you have done (and are considering
doing...)

Kevin

--- Todd Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:00 -0700, Jim Self wrote:
> > Todd Berman wrote:
> > >As I said before, we are in the process of
> open-sourcing pieces of our
> > >work. I have been involved in a decent amount of
> meetings over the last
> > >couple of weeks that show real progress towards
> something that will be
> > >beneficial to everyone.
> > 
> > Can you say yet what parts will certainly be
> released and what parts will not be or are in
> > question? If there are questions regarding the
> server or middleware, would they be eased
> > by development of the RPC function on M2Web?
> 
> 
> The current thinking is to release both the
> middle-ware and the client.
> However, the licensing on the two would be very
> different. We would like
> everyone to be able to take advantage of the
> middleware, as it does
> provide a *lot* of needed functionality (and more
> going forward). So I
> believe the current thinking is GPL on that.
> However, the client itself
> is much more of a investment for us, and I believe
> currently we are
> thinking about going with something like a
> non-commercial license with
> very easy licensing terms. There are several reasons
> for this, which I
> wont go into deeply here, but mostly it comes down
> to preventing a
> company like SAIC to go ahead and snag what we have
> done. However, this
> is all speculative at this point, and could change
> pre-initial release
> and post initial release. If you have any licensing
> suggestions, feel
> free to bring them up. We are still attempting to
> work through various
> issues while continuing to actually get *real* work
> done.
> 
> --Todd
> 
> 
> 
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