Status of the Medicine Database

[Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>]

Dear Andreas,

   Congratulations on the move to package GnuMed for Debian.

   A few months ago, you wrote the maintainer/author of a particular
application that allowed the user in look-up medications and find out
information about this. As I recall, the gist of the letter was a
query to determine it's license so that it could be included with
Debian.

   I am wondering what the outcome of the above-mentioned
correspondence was?

   I personally have been looking at Sleepycat's new XML Database
product which is in the alpha stage. Perhaps glancing is a better word
for it as I have not been able to compile it although from what I
understand there is a simple fix. The goal, though, would be to place
the free drug data (the basic raw data) from the FDA within a
Sleepycat XML databases so it could be shipped with Debian with a
dependency upon the Sleepycat XML-DB.

   Do you still see a need for this?

Elizabeth