Our Mission
Horos is a free, open source medical image viewer. The goal of the Horos Project is to develop a fully functional, 64-bit medical image viewer for Mac OS X. Horos is based upon OsiriXTM and other open source medical imaging libraries. Horos is made available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 (LGPL-3.0).
Origin of Our Name
In
Egyptian Mythology, Horus was the “Son” of the god Osiris. However, upon Osiris’ death, his body was cut into pieces and spread across Egypt. Someone who loved
Osiris dearly tried to reassemble his dismantled fragments but a part of him
was missing and he was never the same again. Soon after, he had a son named Horus.
And it was upon his son’s arrival that Osiris descended into the underworld to become
god of the dead.
We loved OsiriXTM, and like our Egyptian predecessors, we took it upon ourselves to reassemble the open source product from its broken pieces after its code base was closed. So we thought the name Horos was a particularly fitting tribute.
Horos Trademark
Horos is a trademark and the exclusive property of the Horos Project, an Open Source community endeavor. The use of the Horos trademark is protected by common law as well as by U.S. and international treaties. You may not use the Horos mark to identify or refer to any version of Horos that is not certified by the Horos Project as an authorized version of the software unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Horos Project.
Authorized usage of the Horos mark should be indicated as follows:
HorosTM
