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Dear colleagues<br>
<br>
In recent months we have seen a lot of initiatives in several
countries that are implementing ABCD in whole or in part, be it the
Central module, or iAH interface, or the public interface (OPAC) of
the ABCD-Site.<br>
<br>
It is interesting to see the richness and variety of graphical
presentations and product options and services included. It is
becoming a very important and modern advancement of those libraries.
We believe it would be good that these institutions publish their
web addresses, so the colleagues in the list can see working models
and useful examples for themselves.<br>
<br>
However, in some cases (not many) have made some adjustments to
conceal the origin and intellectual property of the applications.
That must be corrected.<br>
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ABCD is a FOSS application suite, which is also free. But being free
does not mean it has no authors and intellectual property, but these
rights have been released under the LGPL license, but they never
abandoned "fatherhood". In the terminology of Creative Commons, is
the idea of "attribution".<br>
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If you look at the source code of software modules, will see many of
them have declared their authors. This information should not be
erased or hidden. Similarly it is wrong to hide the intellectual
origins in the public pages on the Web where it is declared.<br>
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In the case of public interfaces, intellectual paternity claims
appear as footnotes to the main pages of the modules (in their
language versions)<br>
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<u>In Central module:</u><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">ABCD version xxx<br>
20xx BIREME - Centro Latino Americano e do Caribe de Informação em
Ciências da Saúde<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bireme.br">http://www.bireme.br</a></font><br>
<br>
<u>OPAC ABCD-SITE:</u><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">BVS Site version xxx
(c) BIREME/OPS/OMS </font><br>
<br>
<u>interfaz IAH:</u><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Search engine: iAH
v3.1.1 powered by WWWISIS <br>
BIREME/OPS/OMS - Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de
Información en Ciencias de la Salud</font><br>
<br>
It is not necessary to preserve logos or banners included in the
original distribution package, or any means of graphic
identification in any part of the pages, that is totally free. But
it must be retained the intellectual property declaration at the
foot of the main pages.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Ernesto Spinak<br>
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| | Montevideo, Uruguay | |
| | tel/fax (598) 2622-3352 | |
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