Sorry for sending it twice, that was an accident
Bert
On 08-09-15 16:52, Bert Verhees wrote:
Hi Ian, thanks for your answer.
I do not completely agree
My primary concern was to establish that the use of 'proprietary' in the
context of openEHR, particularly in the context of specifications /
archetypes but also in terms of governance, gives the impression (perhaps
unintended), that
a) the specifications and archetypes are licensed using a closed-source
license.
We know that this is not true, but it is not explicitly acknowledged by
Gerard. His wording is vague.
Now is Gerard not that important (or is he? I start to wonder), so we don't
need to push for that. If he does not want to explicitly and clear state that
the OpenEHR license is not proprietary, we have to deal with that. And for me
that is easy, just ignore it.
It just that I do not agree that his contribution from this respect yesterday
was helpful.
b) that ownership of the IP rests with a commercial organisation.
That is no problem. Not-for-profit organizations can have proprietary licenses
and commercial organizations can have non-proprietary licenses.
It is easy to find examples. See RedHAT, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, they all have
non-proprietary licenses. HL7 has been for years a specification-organization
which was not free, which was proprietary of its members. Only since five years
or so, it is a free non proprietary standard/specification organization.
So regarding this second point, the statement which you found helpful has
also not of much value.
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The only helpful statement to make was not made. And that would be that the
OpenEHR specs are licensed by an Apache like license, which is for free use,
(free as in free beer and as in free speech) for commercial and non-commercial
use, for ever.
There is no way the OpenEHR foundation will be able to close the
specifications, if they do, every citizen can bring them to court.
That would have been helpful, but that was not what Gerard said.
So, I do not share your enthusiasm about Gerard's message, yesterday.
There was nothing in it which was helpful from this respect.
Thanks for the discussion on this.
Bert
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