The essential feature of the GNU General Public License (GPL) is a defensive
mechanism
intended to preserve and protect the integrity and status of GPL licensed
software as a
public resource against covert appropriation and dissemination as someone's
proprietary
body of work. Thus ideas of
Sorry for cross posting I felt that it was important to remind us
that VistA is about improving health outcomes first and foremost... this
point easily gets lost in the esoterics of licensing etc. and such. It
also occurred to me that it might be of value to talk about why the open
source
: Saturday, November 20, 2004 6:02 PM
To: hardhats
Subject: [Hardhats-members] GNU GPL and comments
Sorry for cross posting I felt that it was important to remind us
that VistA is about improving health outcomes first and foremost... this
point easily gets lost in the esoterics of licensing etc
Comments below.
-- Bhaskar
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:54, Joel West wrote:
[KSB] ...snip...
* do you want a viral term or not, i.e. one that requires changes to
be given back (GPL) or not (BSD, Apache)
* do you want the viral clause to apply to new versions of the code
(as say the LGPL or
I am impressed by Bhaskar's valient effort to
metaphorically immunize early against the use of the catchy
word viral . To carry the metaphor to Rabies, if you are
early enough with the shots , you can promote an antibody
response before the infectious agent really takes hold.
So this post is
It gets the name from hostname -s. In my system, that traces back
to /etc/hosts and to set the name to Morphix, for instance, this is what you
have to do in the file:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1
-members] GNU GPL and comments (was: that LONG Pedi
thread)
(For reference, I get the Hardhat list in digest form. Pardon any
delays to responding due to this.)
From Rick's email...
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Protecting Pedi Project IP [add] and
SCO
From: Frederick D. S. Marshall
