Re: Documentation Desparation
Hi! On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 21:27, Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook@gmail.com> wrote: >... our own specifications are locked up in these two > formats. We cannot manipulate them into any kind of help files in > order > to integrate them into an application and god forbid we think about > machine translation into other languages. This discussion regards the technical hurdles of extracting specification content in order to include it in help files etc, but what about the legal copyright related possibilities for that? According to the copyright notice of the openEHR specifications (included below) it is not clear to me that you can take specification content and include it in programs (or documents) that might get used commercially or for non-educational purposes. Isn't this an even more urgent issue to solve than the technical extraction? In a previous license discussion I suggested the much more commonly understood and more open CC-BY licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) to be used for the specification documents, but I believe the discussion then slipped over to just licensing for archetypes. Can we solve this while we are at it? >From the documentation... "© Copyright openEHR Foundation 2001 - 2008 All Rights Reserved 1. This document is protected by copyright and/or database right throughout the world and is owned by the openEHR 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, openEHR. 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 openEHR Foundation 2001-2008. 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 openEHR 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 openEHR Free Commercial Use Licence, or enter into a separate written agreement with openEHR Foundation covering such activities. The terms and conditions of the openEHR Free Commercial Use Licence can be found at http://www.openehr.org/free_commercial_use.htm"; ...by the way there is currently nothing at http://www.openehr.org/free_commercial_use.htm Best regards, Erik Sundvall http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ erik.sundvall@liu.se (previously erisu@imt.liu.se) Tel: +46-13-227579 (soon changing to +46-13-286733)