Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-06 Thread JohnLeo Zimmer, MD
Gregory Woodhouse wrote: I don't see how it clarifies your reference to the original license. VistA is in the public domain in the sense that it may be obtained though FOIA. That's not the same as being licensed under an open source license. Indeed, speaking as a non-lawyer, I don't

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-06 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:51 AM, JohnLeo Zimmer, MD wrote: Thus, Medsphere's GPL license can be applied only to the differences between OpenVista server and FOIA VistA. (Likewise, any modifications World Vista makes to VistA.) Unfortunately, I don't think that's really feasible. It's rather

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-06 Thread Fred Trotter
The software in question was not VistA at all. It was developed internally at Medsphere. We are simply talking about a company that placed an open source offering on sourceforge and then, dramatically, had the software removed. They have since released one of the items they yanked under an open

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Cook
JohnLeo Zimmer, MD wrote: . Thus, Medsphere's GPL license can be applied only to the differences between OpenVista server and FOIA VistA. (Likewise, any modifications World Vista makes to VistA.) IMHO, of course, jlz I don't believe so. Public domain software CAN be re-released under

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Cook wrote: JohnLeo Zimmer, MD wrote: . Thus, Medsphere's GPL license can be applied only to the differences between OpenVista server and FOIA VistA. (Likewise, any modifications World Vista makes to VistA.) IMHO, of course, jlz I don't believe so. Public domain software CAN be

Re: [openhealth] Medsphere really is an open source company after all?

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Churches
Fred Trotter wrote: The software in question was not VistA at all. It was developed internally at Medsphere. We are simply talking about a company that placed an open source offering on sourceforge and then, dramatically, had the software removed. They have since released one of the items