[Gnumed-devel] Companies and Gnumed (was: GnuMed presentation resources (and help needed))

[J Busser]

At 3:44 AM -0500 3/11/05, Horst Herb wrote:
>  > Horst,
> >  You have mentioned this before but please explain.  Do you mean Gnumed
> >  should not be one company instead of a community? Or do you object to
> >  having a business around Gnumed such as coding on demand for clients and
> >  providing service ?
>
> Gnumed should not be a company.
> Companies are most welcome to make money from supporting or extending gnumed,
> but they should never gain any degree of control over gnumed.

What about setting up a foundation like the Python Software Foundation to
- hold the copyright (copyleft)
- make more possible the recognition of gnumed as an entity to
- - be entitled to receive grants
- - for work contributed (donated) to Gnumed to be able to be counted 
for tax purposes (I heard something like this may be allowed in 
Australia in support of Open Source
- - other

Maybe no rush to do this but to look at doing so over the next 1-2 
years? The Python Software Foundation conducts its required periodic 
"meetings" online, it does not have to be structured purely 
democratically i.e. it is not required that all users of gnumed have 
voted representatives complicating the Foundation's ability to get 
things done (though some kind of input mechanism would be desirable).