Hi, For now, our NPO is too poor to engage in consulting or to pay external developments and we awfully miss time to manage all aspects of a widely collaborative project. Sounds like we are travelling to "contrib" or "non-free" package ? Or may be "non-debian" ?
Belle journée Cordialement <http://maeker.fr> *Dr Maeker Éric* *Gériatre, psychogériatre* eric.mae...@gmail.com Twitter @DrMaeker <https://www.twitter.com/drmaeker> RPPS 10002307964 maeker.fr Site personnel empathies.fr Association Emp@thies freemedforms.com Logiciel médical La gériatrie, c'est la médecine pour les pères et les mères Noël Le ven. 10 janv. 2020 à 03:03, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 8:00 PM Eric Maeker wrote: > > > Free Source code is provided to any demander approved by the NPO, code > licence is still the same. > > I don't like this, people seeking source code should not have to get > approval first. That said, I note that the source code is available > directly from the site without approval. > > > But, the code documentation is only reserved to approved developers by > this NPO. > > I definitely don't like this, it would be much better to publish the > code documentation to everyone under a free license. > > > We do encourage new dev to apply to our NPO and to sign a CLA (which is > still a draft piece of text actually). > > I don't like this either, it would be much better for devs to release > their contributions under the same license that you do, then you can > incorporate their changes, preserving their copyright over their > changes and passing on their license to you to downstream users. So > the whole of the software is then owned by a variety of copyright > holders, each of whom also have to abide by the license given to them > by the other contributors. The license on the software then cannot be > changed without contributor consensus, so it becomes a much more solid > project from a user perspective. Single-owner projects are much more > easy to turn proprietary. > > http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/09/do-not-need-cla.html > > > The problem is that FreeMedForms EHR needs access to private data > > Could you explain why this data needs to be private? It would be much > better to release it publicly under a free license. > > > The private data are only available to paying partners to the NPO. > > Is this the only form of income that the NPO has available to it? It > sounds like the NPO is seeking what is called an "Open Core" business > model, where the core part of the project is public and freely > licensed but addons are proprietary. The incentives here can be quite > perverse, often companies seek to prevent outside contributions to the > core or even remove features from the core so that more people start > paying them for the proprietary addons. So I encourage you to consider > alternative income streams. > > I think the best option for the would be to consult with as many of > the practices, clinics, hospitals and emergency departments that you > know about that use the software and find out the best way for the NPO > to have enough resources to continue development consistent with the > interests of the community of folks who use the software. Examples of > potential income models could include: large grants/sponsorships that > cover development and other costs, a membership subscriber base that > pays for all maintenance and development costs, or more of a > crowd-funding model where folks interested in specific features pay > for their development, or a community of consultants that do all work > on the project as requested by their customers or possibly a > combination of these and other options. > > > Forks trie to access our private data using the open sourced server > protocol (query to a php script). > > I would suggest to just make the data public and under a free license, > but if you don't want to do that, the way to go would be to setup an > e-commerce site where people have to pay before they can download the > private data and then have in the software a way to load the locally > saved data that has been downloaded from the site. I believe there are > some freely licensed e-commerce tools in Debian and the consultants > that offer support for Debian in your area might be able to help with > finding, installing and configuring them. > > https://www.debian.org/consultants/ > https://lists.debian.org/debian-consultants/ > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
