Re: Documentation Desparation

[Thomas Beale <thomas.beale@oceaninformatics.com>]

For everyone's information - the specification use license was created by UCL lawyers some years ago, based (I think) on a fairly academic model of fair use. I can almost guarantee that they were not thinkng about creating extracted help files, and at the time neither was I.  The board is working on the CC-BY / BY-SA question for archetypes, and given the thinking about specification use for help files, maybe we need to revisit the documentation license as well. I wonder what precedents there are for help documentation generated from an existing corpus of documentations ./ specifications?

- thomas beale

Tim Cook wrote:

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:08 +0200, Erik Sundvall wrote:

  

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?
    

Well, I'm still waiting to hear from the openEHR Foundation Board
(officially) on this issue since they are the only governing body we
have.

I'm not personally concerned with the notice you pointed out because my
re-use strictly adheres to items 2&3.  However, commercial
users/developers such as Ocean Informatics may or may not be in breach
of that license.  That is for the Foundation Board to decide.  There
does seem to be some conflict with some of the content notices and
licenses regarding commercial use though.  It basically depends on where
you look on the website.

The openEHR Foundation, as a legal entity in the UK (and the web site
claims globally), supported by CHIME/UCL and Ocean Informatics I assume
have sought proper legal counsel?

--Tim


  

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Thomas Beale Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Informatics Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR Foundation Honorary Research Fellow, University College London Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer Society