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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:54:06 -0500 From: Sam Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rod Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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