Re: OpenEMR Project homepage
Hi Sam,
I think I'll foreward your private Mail to the Debian-Med list, because
we are not a one-man-show but have several people who are interested
into this afair.
For the moment the only thing we could do for you is to change the link on
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/practice#openemr
from http://www.openemr.net/ to http://www.oemr.org/.
In general I think it is an issue for a lawyer to prevent people from
turning GPLed software into something else. I think the first address
for those issues is
http://gpl-violations.org/
In principle I see no problem if a for profit company uses GPLed software.
There is nothing wrong doing so - they just are not allowed to turn GPL
in something else. I know to less in this affair to be more helpful. If
you see a chance for further help please ask (preferably over the list).
Kind regards
Andreas.
--
http://fam-tille.de
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:54:06 -0500
From: Sam Bowen <drbowen@charter.net>
To: tille@debian.org
Subject: OpenEMR Project homepage
Dear Andreas,
I am the president of the developers group that is currently developing
and maintaining the OpenEMR project at SourceForge. Walt Pennington has
abandoned his involvement with the OpenEMR project. I am trying to
correct the web page at:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/record.html#AEN239
The most recent release of OpenEMR is 2.8.2 on January 14, 2007.
The current home page of this project is:
http://www.oemr.org/
Current maintainers of the Sourceforge openEMR project include
Sam Bowen, MD drbowen@charter.net
Rod Roark rod@sunsetsystems.net
Of note, the current owners of the openemr.net site are a for profit
company that intend to change the licensing on their version of the
OpenEMR to a more restrictive license to allow them to attach modules
that do not qualify under the GNU General Public License. They are in
effect trying to usurp and privatize the OpenEMR name.
The SourceForge OpenEMR project is a truly free open source project that
has a mission of releasing all of the OpenEMR software for free under
the General GNU Public License.
The Free Software Foundation is supporting our maintenance of the
OpenEMR project at SourceForge by changing their registration
information to reflect the current maintainers. Please help us make this
change.
Sam Bowen, MD
President, OEMR.org
Hi Sam,
Thanks for the update and the correction on the home page. Sorry for
the delay in the update, but I have been away for the past two weeks.
The changes will go live tomorrow after 5am est when the directory
regenerates.
-- Best, Ted Teah Directory Maintainer
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