Ok, that page didn't appear to me because I was not logged in the wiki when I made the search :-)
It is good to see thar there are discussed more or less the same points as in my mail. Best regards, David 2009/9/1 Thomas Beale <thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> > > There is now a page for discussing this - > http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom/Archetypes+-+Copyright+and+Licensing > > - thomas beale > > David Moner wrote: > > Dear all, > > These days I have been thinking about the legal issues involving the use of > existing archetypes. I have seen that openEHR archetypes available on the > Clinical Knowledge Manager are all "Copyright (c) 200X openEHR Foundation". > But, what does this exactly implies? I can download them freely, but can I > use them in a commercial environment? Must I make public specialized > archetypes or adaptations from them? Obviously, "I" is not me but anybody > :-) > > I have searched the openEHR page and wiki but I have not found anything > about this topic, just a point in the copyright notice of the specifications > linking to the non-existing page > http://www.openehr.org/free_commercial_use.htm > > I think it would be good to start a discussion about licensing. I'm not > talking about open source implementations, but about the archetype artifacts > that anyone can develop. A first approach that can be made is the use of a > Creative Common license. I think that one of them can fit the interests of > the openEHR community. In my opinion, the main aspects that a license for > archetypes must cover are: > > - To maintain the attribution to the original author (the openEHR > Foundation or whoever) > - To allow a commercial use of archetypes (like or not, health is a > business) > - To allow modifications and derivations of the archetype. > - On behalf of the openEHR community, the new derived archetypes should be > made public with the same conditions. This is arguable and could be > eliminated. > > As I said, one of the Creative Commons licenses covers all this properties. > It is the Attribution Share Alike license: "This license lets others remix, > tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they > credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This > license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works > based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also > allow commercial use." > http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses > > Finally, this leads to a secondary point. Maybe, the "copyright" attribute > of an archetype should be renamed to "license" to best fit the conditions of > usage of archetypes. > > What's your opinion? > > > -- > David Moner Cano > Grupo de Inform?tica Biom?dica - IBIME > Instituto ITACA > http://www.ibime.upv.es > > Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia (UPV) > Camino de Vera, s/n, Edificio G-8, Acceso B, 3? planta > Valencia ? 46022 (Espa?a) > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing listopenEHR-clinical at > openehr.orghttp://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > > > > -- > *Thomas Beale > Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics<http://www.oceaninformatics.com/> > * > > Chair Architectural Review Board, *open*EHR > Foundation<http://www.openehr.org/> > Honorary Research Fellow, University College > London<http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/> > Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer > Society<http://www.bcs.org.uk/> > * > * > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > -- David Moner Cano Grupo de Inform?tica Biom?dica - IBIME Instituto ITACA http://www.ibime.upv.es Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia (UPV) Camino de Vera, s/n, Edificio G-8, Acceso B, 3? planta Valencia ? 46022 (Espa?a) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20090901/39e2c1f2/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OceanC_small.png Type: image/png Size: 4972 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20090901/39e2c1f2/attachment.png>
