Instead of time, quality and hard work, think like a marketing department:
just merge the acronyms of GEHR, OIO and FreePM.
GOIRPM
At times I have been known to jest.
-- IV
Christian Heller wrote:
>
> Dear David,
>
> As you know, I consider your project OpenEMed as one
> of the best out there. It is truely built on Object Technology
> and a pure distribution of services.
> Great, that CORBAmed is now being mentioned
> more often in this discussion list to lead the right way.
>
> I'd like to ask you some things yet:
>
> 1 Which relation is there between OpenEMed and the
> TeleMed project? Can't they be melted into one?
>
> 2 I guess, you used the BSD license to allow commercial
> users working with your code. Is there no way to convince
> you to use the GPL?
>
> 3 I appreciate the work of you and your institute.
> Just some time ago I found a license description of TeleMed
> that requires to mention your University whenever using
> code of your project. Is that fair when perhaps many other
> developers around the globe will work with on your project?
>
> 4 I would like to see you as a leading architect giving advice
> to many of our projects. How about taking the list of
> possible CORBA modules (= packages = different programs)
> and distribute that work to our projects?
> One would do the PIDS (you), another project the
> LexiconQueryService-LQS (Bud??) etc.
>
> There are many members of this list using Script languages
> who could provide web GUIs - besides your Swing clients.
> Others are experienced in administrating databases (mostly ER).
> Many would just like to do proper OO development in the core
> using common Business Objects.
> Some (such as I) like to bring systematics into all that,
> analyse Frameworks and (Meta)Models, e.g. by using the UML.
>
> So I suggest to do a document or better web page giving
> an overview just as Thomas Beale wrote:
> "...collaborative document - a sort of comparison table..."
>
> Are we all on the way to unite?
>
> David Forslund wrote:
>
> > One point that might be of help here. If systems communicate
> > through a well defined
> > open interface, then I believe you could mix GPL and BSD type licenses
> > since the codes
> > would not have to be delivered together. For example, an application
> > that uses DNS doesn't need
> > to have a GPL version of DNS since it talks to it through an open
> > API. This also is an avenue
> > for open source systems to talk with vendor systems through an open
> > API. This seems
> > to me to be a viable approach which allows open source systems to
> > promote interoperability
> > without the source code licenses getting into the way.
> >
> > Dave
>
> --
> Kind regards from
> Christian
>
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