Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-07 Thread Tim.Churches
Fred Trotter wrote: > Tim, > > > > 5) If SourceCodeA calls SourceCodeB at runtime only, then there is no > > requirement for SourceCodeA to be made available under the GPL. Note > > that apart from the fact that runtime behaviour is explicitly outside > > teh scope of the GPL, this is also a

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-07 Thread Fred Trotter
Tim, > 5) If SourceCodeA calls SourceCodeB at runtime only, then there is no > requirement for SourceCodeA to be made available under the GPL. Note > that apart from the fact that runtime behaviour is explicitly outside > teh scope of the GPL, this is also a corollary of 4) above. In other > word

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Tim.Churches
Fred Trotter wrote: > Tim, > > > Personally I am opposed to software algorithms and business methods > > being patentable at all. But in those unfortunate countries in which > > such patents are issued (eg US, Australia, Japan, India), what you > > propose is probably OK, provided that univers

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Trotter
Tim, > Personally I am opposed to software algorithms and business methods > being patentable at all. But in those unfortunate countries in which > such patents are issued (eg US, Australia, Japan, India), what you > propose is probably OK, provided that universal royalty-free patent > licenses a

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Tim.Churches
Fred Trotter wrote: > I know that there is a patent application because the FreeMED project > has disclosed this... > > http://www.linuxmednews.com/1098376300/index_html > > They may have received a patent already or had it rejected. They have > not recently indicated what the status of the appl

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Trotter
Tim, > Actually, you are correct - dual-licensing is still mentioned in Section > 13 of the MPL license, but references to the GPL are replaced with > underscores. strange isnt it. Also there are no copyright notices on the REMITT files, which is why I addressed my letter to those who were genera

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Tim.Churches
Fred Trotter wrote: > > > > If you look carefully, REMITT is dual-licensed under both the MPL v1.1 > > and the GPL v2. Read the LICENSE file carefully! However, the REMITT > > people have not bothered to modify Exhibit A in the MPL 1.1 license file > > to identify the original developers and c

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Adrian Midgley
Licencing is complicated and a source of trouble... One of the things in a starter kit for FLOSS in healthcare should perhaps be a means of plotting the attribution of pieces of code. I gather the Linux kernel maintainers went back through stuff, and ended up demonstrating that their project is f

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Christian Heller
> Actually this has been the subject of considerable confusion. The > website says that REMITT is licensed under the MPL with GPL > compatibility. However, a close read of the License file indicates that > they are not using the GPL compatibility. So the website says one thing > and the LICENSE say

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Trotter
> > If you look carefully, REMITT is dual-licensed under both the MPL v1.1 > and the GPL v2. Read the LICENSE file carefully! However, the REMITT > people have not bothered to modify Exhibit A in the MPL 1.1 license file > to identify the original developers and contributors, so the validity of >

Re: [openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-05 Thread Tim.Churches
Fred Trotter wrote: > Dear FreeMED BOD, > Recently I have been interested in interfacing with > edihealthcare.com. I recalled that during the time Jeff Buchbinder and I > worked on FreeMED and FreeB together, I paid him to develop a curl based > interface to that system. I was curious to see

[openhealth] REMITT GPL violation

2005-07-05 Thread Fred Trotter
Dear FreeMED BOD, Recently I have been interested in interfacing with edihealthcare.com. I recalled that during the time Jeff Buchbinder and I worked on FreeMED and FreeB together, I paid him to develop a curl based interface to that system. I was curious to see how REMITT was handling this