> Open-source or just "open"? What are the licensing arrangements for the > Microsoft/NHS Common Health Interface controls? Obviously they depend on > the Microsoft .NET platform (do they also work with Mono?), but are > there additional licensing restrictions or limited access to the Common > Health Interface controls themselves?
This is what I had to sign up to when I registered ages ago.. in brief, no to open source (3.4.2.3.4) and no to mono (3.4.1) - I presume this is the same site from which the common control stuff would come. https://www.cui.nhs.uk/Pages/NHSCommonUserInterface.aspx --- 3.4 Use Rights 3.4.1 Use: You may install the software on any number of devices to design, develop and test your programs that run on a Microsoft Windows operating system. 3.4.2 Distributable Code: The software contains code that you are permitted to copy and distribute in programs you develop if you comply with the terms below: 3.4.2.1 Right to Use and Distribute. The code and text files listed below are "Distributable Code". You may: 3.4.2.1.1 REDIST.TXT Files. Copy and distribute the object code form of code listed in REDIST.TXT files; 3.4.2.1.2 Sample Code: Modify the source code form of Sample Code for the sole purpose of designing, developing and testing your programs, and copy and distribute the object code form of your modified files; 3.4.2.1.3 Development Code: Modify the source code form of Development Code for the sole purpose of designing, developing and testing your programs, and copy and distribute the object code form of your modified files; 3.4.2.1.4 Third Party Distribution: Permit distributors of your programs to copy and distribute the Distributable Code in object code form as part of those programs; and 3.4.2.1.5 Use by End Users: Permit end users of your programs to use the Distributable Code as part of your programs. 3.4.2.2 Distribution Requirements. For any Distributable Code you distribute, you must: 3.4.2.2.1 add significant primary functionality to it in your programs; 3.4.2.2.2 only invoke the software via interfaces described in the software documentation; 3.4.2.2.3 distribute Distributable Code included in a setup program only as part of that setup program without modification; 3.4.2.2.4 require distributors and end users to agree to distribution or use terms that contain the same restrictions and disclaimers as are set out in this agreement; 3.4.2.2.5 display your valid copyright notice on your programs; and 3.4.2.2.6 indemnify, defend, without limitation and hold harmless the Secretary of State for Health and its suppliers, including Microsoft Limited and its affiliated companies ("Microsoft"), from any claims, including any applicable lawyers' fees, related to the distribution or use of your programs. 3.4.2.3 Distribution Restrictions. You may not: 3.4.2.3.1 alter any copyright, trademark or patent notice in the Distributable Code; 3.4.2.3.2 use the Secretary of State for Health's or Microsoft's trademarks in your programs' names or in a way that suggests your programs come from or are endorsed by the Secretary of State for Health or Microsoft; 3.4.2.3.3 include Distributable Code in malicious, deceptive or unlawful programs; or 3.4.2.3.4 modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution, that: (a) the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form, or (b) others have the right to modify it.
