Will Ross wrote: > The following link will send you to a four page introduction to Open > Source Software published by the HIMSS Open Source Work Group. > > http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_FocusDynamic.asp?faid=190 > > Principal authors of this document, in alphabetical order, are: > > Neil Cowles > Guy Fisher > Nilish Gupte > Drew Ivan > Will Ross > > Corrections and suggested improvements are welcome and may be sent to > my attention for the next edition. > > With best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > will ross > project manager > mendocino informatics > 216 west perkins street, suite 206 > ukiah, california 95482 usa > 707.462.6369 [office] > 707.462.5015 [fax] > www.minformatics.com > > - - - - - - - - > > > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > will ross > project manager > mendocino health records exchange > 216 west perkins street, suite 206 > ukiah, california 95482 usa > 707.462.6369 [office] > 707.462.5015 [fax] > www.mendocinohre.org > > - - - - - - - - > > "Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded by patents." > Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS, 2006 > Hi Will, Kernel is spelt kernal throughout the article. Regarding the GPL your article states inter alia: "The fourth freedom is also a restriction: by changing the source code, the licensee agrees to release the changed code under the same free software license. In other words, the results must also remain as open source software, allowing the whole community to benefit from all improvements."
This is incorrect. There is no compulsion to redistribute changes as far as I'm aware. If you decide to publicly redistribute changes then you must observe the fourth "freedom", but otherwise you can keep your changes to yourself. Regards, Mark Preston
