If we intend as a group to create an alternate software suite, this will
be a question that we will confront at some stage.
Perhaps we should get some reliable advice.
As I understand it:
(1) The Dr owns the data.
(2) Under the MSIA code of practice each vendor has an obligation to
allow the user to export his data to another format if required. I dont
know what the legal position is here, but I would have thought it could
be argued that if the DB is encrypted and the vendor will not allow
access then he is preventing the Dr using his own data.
(3) Merely knowing the schema is not a breach of copyright - as long as
it is not replicated
Still I am not an expert in the area!
R
syan tan wrote:
would a conversion routine which read the original schema and moved data to a
cleanroom schema be violating copyright ?
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:37 pm, Richard Hosking wrote:
Its not the schema you want - just the data. As far as I know this
remains the property of the Dr concerned. But I would think you need to
know the layout of the DB to get it.
R
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.
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Does anyone know if this is possible with a MedTech32 database?
Is it possible to migrate the data so simply?
Cheers,
Chris.
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On Sunday 22 October 2006 14:44, Richard Hosking wrote:
as Pracsoft to a rails DB. If the DB schema is known this should be
possible using a Ruby script.
The db schema of pracsoft is known and quite simple.
On Linux, you can use "mdbtools" to migrate the whole prasoft
database to postgres or mysql with a single command
(On Debian / Ubuntu you can install mdbtools with "apt-get
install mdbtools", then read the man file, copy the pracsoft
Access database file onto your Linux box, and you are done in minutes.
Make sure you use the switches for "safe names" = replacing
all spaces with underscores in table and column names etc
Once you have exported the database to postgres, you can use
tools like
pgadmin3 to explore the database schema (apt-get install pgadmin3 ...)
Horst
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