Re: [Gnumed-devel] trivial pursuit with loinc

[Ian Haywood]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 07:21:05AM +1000, Tim Churches wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 02:35, James Busser wrote:
> > http://www.loinc.org/license
> > 
> > The license is not "named" but does it translate as "freeware"? (Not sure 
> > if "freeware" is anywhere formally defined)
"free software" IS defined (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)
and LOINC falls short as it restricts modification. IMHO this is not
a big issue as we don't want to modify LOINC, and the licence is
otherwise quite liberal. The only problem is with Debian packaging: a
separate LOINC package is needed for "non-free".

Tim, what is "the former" which is unsatisfactory: LOINC, or the AusPath
codes?

Ian