Grahame, we should certainly examine the discussions you have had in FHIR-land. Is there a link to any discussion, debate on this (i.e. we know what the result it, but what was the thinking along the way?)
- thomas On 02/10/2014 09:11, Grahame Grieve wrote: > This is why we choose CC-0 for FHIR. End of story, there are no debates. > > Sure, people can go and try and make money off FHIR. All power to > them. But times have changed - if they're intending to compete, they > won't stay ahead of the community nowadays. So anyone worth working > with will share the common stuff, and focus on making money using and > leveraging our IP. Which is what we want to happen. > > Other people have raised the concern that people will be able predate > the work and take it away from us. Not so. They have confused > trademark, patents, and copyright. We yielded copyright. Trademark we > explicitly did not, and patents.... that's a complicated story of it's > own. But public prior art is the best defense against patents, and > FHIR is busy creating public prior art. Of course, openEHR has been > doing so for a lot longer > > Grahame >
