On Monday 23 October 2006 14:24, Hugh Leslie wrote: > Is there an issue of copyright here? I am not sure if HCN or Medtech would > be happy for their exact schema to be reused in any other arena even if it > is open source... Data is one thing - you own the data, but I think the > exact schema will be copyright.
Don't know about Medtech, but I don't think anybody would *want* to reuse a HCN database schema inthe first place. I found it useful to export all Pracsoft data into a SQL backend of my choice (Postgres) because it was very easy from there to transform it into a schema of my choice with simple SQL queries OTOH - copyrighting a database schema seems silly under most circumstances too - just think of demographic data, not that many different ways of doing it - a single copyright would already prevent most competitors to implement a simple address book. Where to draw the line? I have yet to see a practoce software package with an outstandingly smart database schema that would not have crossed the mind anybody else thinking about implementing such. Would be like copyrighting phrases when you wrote a book - pointless and harmful. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
