I really must apologise for my last email. It was sent in error. clicked "reply to".
Sorry Aidan On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:06, Aidan M McGuire wrote: > Adrian, > > I seem to have come off the mailing list for openhealth and wonder is it > just me or has something happened to the list? > > Aidan McGuire > www.bluefountain.com > > ps A Surrey Health Informatics have opted to adopt plone & zope as their > preferred technology for content and document management. We beat > documentum :) > http://www.bluefountain.com/news/NHSPCA_news > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 22:05, Adrian Midgley wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 15:56, Don Grodecki wrote: > > > I am having arguments with my colleagues regarding some of the terms used > > > with respect to FOSS. Can anyone help me to understand what some of these > > > terms really mean? > > > > > > Open > > A term of art I think. > > > > > Open Source Software > > I would take the definition of the OSF, who trademarked it in the US at > > least:- > > http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php > > "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The > > distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the > > following criteria: ..." > > > > I'd expect anyone asking those questions to also find useful an answer > > to the question of what is Logiciel Libre/Free[1] Software > > The premier reference has to be > > www.fsf.org > > > > ([1] as in speech not as in beer) > > > > > Software in the Public Domain > > > Software licensed to the Public Domain > > I think the latter of those two is impossible/a paradox. > > > > > Ownership > > Is theft.[2] > > > > [2] Ah, but from whom? > > (and it is a quote, not an assertion) > > > > > Copyright > > Subsists automatically. CopyLeft OTOH is a constituent of Free (Libre) > > Software but may not be of all Open Source Software ... the BSD Licence > > for instance does not preserve and enforce CopyLeft. > > > > > License for Use > > The owner of the copyright may give you licence for use. > > If he has put it out under copyleft, he has given such licence to you, > > and your aunts and cousins and anyone else, without trooubling you to > > ask or him to count. This saves a certain amount of effort when you are > > trying to disseminate something. > > > > > > > License for Derivation > > An essential component of the Free Software licences such as the GPL, > > and the Open Source licences. You can alter it, with or without telling > > anyone. (If it is FLOSS you must distribute your source code > > alterations if you distribute the compiled executable, but crucially in > > FUD-busting terms you need not distribute it, and therefore need not > > distribute the alterations at all to anyone. > > (The real driver of FLOSS spreading is that it is usually rather silly > > to give yourself extra recurrent work but _not_ redistributing and > > having aggregated your changes with the base version, not the Gates > > Commie creed.) > > > > > License for Re-Distribution > > An essential component of the Free Software licences such as the GPL, > > and the Open Source licences. > > > > > > IANAL. > >
