Gerard,
the 'IP rights' are defined by the licences. You can read them here
<http://www.openehr.org/about/intellectual_property>. The rights to use,
copy and adapt are clearly defined, and include no curbs on freedom, and
no requirement for payment. The only real requirement is that
attribution of the original author(s) remains visible.
This is how all open source IP works. This is why it is called 'open'.
You will find for example that the Linux kernel is 'owned' by Linus
Torvalds. But the ownership is irrelevant because of the licence under
which it is available.
There is no dependency of openEHR IP on proprietary specifications of
any kind - that is objectively demonstrable. The only reason I can
imagine that openEHR's open licenced IP could have encountered problems
in any European country is due to the presence of bureaucrats with an
understanding of open source / commons licencing as obtuse as your own.
Or perhaps they were coached?
- thomas
On 04/09/2015 05:46, "Gerard Freriks (privé)" wrote:
Again.
Answer the question ‘Who owns the specifications of openEHR, looking
at the quotes I provided?
The answer is:
UCL owns the IP rights and licensing conditions.
Members of, participants in, openEHR gremia, do not.
And that is why I call openEHR specifications proprietary.
According to the definition of ‘open standard’, openEHR is an open
Standard
but owned by as single company.
I know for certain that this fact prohibited serious business in some
European countries, some years ago.
Because of the licensing and dependency on proprietary specifications,
the artifacts produced were not controllable by the user/customer.
This was their reason, after legal consultation, not to use software
based on openEHR specifications.
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