Tim Churches wrote: >Would it be possible to license the material, with the exception of the >validator software and the lex/yacc files under a formal open source >documentation license, such as The GNU Free Documentation license - see >http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL - or one of the Creative >Commons licenses - see http://creativecommons.org/license/ and place a >message in each document pointing to the chosen license. Doing this >provides better protection for everyone - both authors and users - than >the above note in a README file. > > The licencing that I think will occur will be as follows:
ADL language definition document + language production rules (a bit more precisely produced than the ones I have included in this package) - copyright to openEHR. The conditions of use are included below (and are very open as you can see). This copyright description was developed by the legal group of University College London; hopefully it is acceptable to all prospective users. The software will probably remain copyright to Ocean. The licence will most likely be the current openEHR licence devised in Australia, but legal people will still need to check this. That licence is a Mozilla clone (whcih guarantees it is automatically accepted as a valid OS licence). There was some discussion about considering a modified GPL as well - I have to admit I am not quite up to date on this. I have also realised that the openEHR licence is not on the website. So - there are a few details which we need to clarify. There is still a discussion going on abotu dual-licencing as well. Essnetially, everything will be as open as possible, with strong copyright protection (this is to protect the openEHR community from corporate or other appropriation & msuse of materials). I realise that I forgot to include the link to the current licence at openEHR (see URL in copyright statement below) - this is the full wording of the licence for documentation - it will be included next version. The software won't be released for a while simply because we need enough time to clean it up, document it well enough that when it is released, we do not drown in a barrage of email about "how does work/what does htis mean" etc. However, I don't mind releasing it to interested individuals who promise not to flood us too much! Just a matter of resources, as I'm sure everyone can understand. Hope this helps. There will be a number of announcements in the next few weeks, which will clear up various things, includiing licence details. - thomas beale ----------------------- ? Copyright /open/EHR Foundation 2001 - 2003 All Rights Reserved 1. This document is protected by copyright and/or database right throughout the world and is owned by the /open/EHR Foundation. 2. You may read and print the document for private, non-commercial use. 3. You may use this document (in whole or in part) for the purposes of making presentations and education, so long as such purposes are non-commercial and are designed to comment on, further the goals of, or inform third parties about, /open/EHR. 4. You must not alter, modify, add to or delete anything from the document you use (except as is permitted in paragraphs 2 and 3 above). 5. You shall, in any use of this document, include an acknowledgement in the form: "? Copyright /open/EHR Foundation 2001-2003. All rights reserved. www.openEHR.org" 6. This document is being provided as a service to the academic community and on a non-commercial basis. Accordingly, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, the /open/EHR Foundation accepts no liability and offers no warranties in relation to the materials and documentation and their content. 7. If you wish to commercialise, license, sell, distribute, use or otherwise copy the materials and documents on this site other than as provided for in paragraphs 1 to 6 above, you must comply with the terms and conditions of the /open/EHR Free Commercial Use Licence, or enter into a separate written agreement with /open/EHR Foundation covering such activities. The terms and conditions of the /open/EHR Free Commercial Use Licence can be found at http://www.openehr.org/free_commercial_use.htm - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
