Re: [ox-en] [Freesw] meeting report: eHealth in Developing Countries (fwd)
- From: Stefan Meretz <stefan.meretz hbv.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 08:55:48 +0200
Graham Seaman wrote:
Another forward...this time more in tune with Oekonux (ie.
open source outside the purely software area). I'm not sure if
this is annoying people; are many others on the freesw list and
so receiving these anyway?
I am not on freesw list, so I like to receive well selected mails from
there via ox-en:-)
Stefan
PS: A nice reaction on "viral licenses" from fsfe-list:
By analogy with biology (viruses attacking other cells) and computer
sciencs (virus code modifying other code and data) a viral license
should mean a license that affects other licenses.
Examples of non-viral licenses:
GNU GPL (affects only code derived from GPL'd code which is covered
by the GPL'd code author's copyright according to copyright law;
somewhat like inheritance in biology).
Examples of viral licenses:
The new Microsoft EULA (affects licenses of other code that is not
covered by Microsoft's copyright).
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