On 09-09-15 04:20, Thomas Beale wrote:
On 08/09/2015 21:55, Erik Sundvall wrote:
Hi!
ND on the specification documents is not a big or urgent problem if
there are Apace 2 licenced computable artifacts
like UML-files/descriptions of all classes, ADL/AQL grammars, openEHR
term lists/vocabularies and other things needed for building actual
systems. I believe that is already the case (or at least the intention).
we probably need to perform an audit on all of these artefacts to
check the licences. One thing we need to change is to allow more types
of software licence, e.g. AGPL. Large companies and huge health
institutions like the NHS simply cannot expect to be able to use
everything for free when it costs quite serious investment on the part
of typically small companies or research groups in academic settings.
They need to consider contributing resources. Viral licences need to
be allowed to enable conditional use; if funding is made available,
such licences can be converted to other types of licence.
We must not forget, this discussion (the ND-part) is in the context of
the specifications, and specifications is NOT software.
If you are going to ask money for the specifications, or
membership-construction, OpenEHR is not anymore open.
And most important, you cannot close down this version the OpenEHR
specs, because you have given it to the world with the right to share it.
It will always compete with your paid version on the market. So the
AOM-part and other more technical parts will be stable and for free for
coming decade.
The Reference Model can change version and in a new version close down
the free distribution, but many can write a Reference Model.
I, personally, consider the Reference Model as least innovative.
We have so many Reference Models, Tim Cook created one, Grahame Grieve
created one, the guys from 13606 created one.
And don't forget the current version of the Reference Model.
Even in the Netherlands there are a few as datamodel which can easily be
converted to a two level Reference Model.
Bert
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