[FOSS_health] Re: [Hardhats] Re: X-links for VOE interfacing

[Joseph Dal Molin]

WorldVistA EHR  would lose its certified status if someone continued to 
use the WorldVistA EHR name for the forked code. The agreement helps 
prevent unintentional forking and gives WorldVistA a better vehicle for 
managing change and the brand name. The certification agreement template 
is a public document available on the CCHIT site, for anyone interested 
in the details.

Joseph

Woodhouse Gregory wrote:
> 
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
> 
>>  In a nutshell, the certified version cannot  be forked and stay 
>> certified...what we are working on is an end user agreement to address 
>> this and other scenarios which only focuses on the ability to claim 
>> use of certified code and does not affect the open source nature of 
>> WorldVistA EHR.
>>
> 
> Certainly, if there is a fork, I would not expect the forked versions to 
> be certified, but why would the WorldVista EHR /also/ lose its certified 
> status? That doesn't quite make sense to me.
> 
> "We may with advantage at times forget what we know."
> --Publilius Cyrus, c. 100 B.C.
> 
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