I agree, but the way Gerard puts it, seems to imply it does.
About the IP licenses. The OpenEHR board issued an e-mail on Okt
2nd 2099 in which they announce that:
'.... We have discussed the issues set out above, at length, and
they cannot be quickly decided upon, safely. We view it as our role, at
this stage, to publish here an interim statement of the policy issues
we have identified and the direction of travel we are following, for
the Foundation, which is as follows:
- To meet immediate needs, we are minded to publish
archetypes managed at http://www.openEHR.org/knowledge
from the Foundation under the Creative Commons license – specifically
the Attribute
and ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA). This
is the same license that Wikipedia is using.
- We also propose, at a minimum, that the copyright of all
archetypes managed at http://www.openEHR.org/knowledge should
be assigned to the Foundation. This is needed to ensure that
the Foundation can give permission to others to adapt the work (see the
CC license for details).
We will continue to listen and
consult on the wider issues discussed in this interim statement. We
must align the Foundation’s approach with the requirements and plans of
our partners in IHTSDO and EuroRec and with the development of the new
governance framework and business plan now needed for the Foundation.
We will keep the plan under close
review over the period ahead, as we work with EuroRec, IHTSDO and
others to fund a major experimental and clinically driven project for
clinical content quality assurance, embracing archetypes and
terminology.
This interim statement is now on the
wiki at http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/oecom/Archetypes+-+Copyright+and+Licensing.
Subject to any necessary rethinking as a Board, arising from responses
we receive before December 1st 2009, we plan that it will
become official openEHR Foundation policy from January 1st 2010,
when a set of rules covering its implementation will also be published.
We will also consider whether and in what form we might usefully
propose guidelines for how copyright in archetypes might best be
managed in other contexts, such as a) when managed by governments on
national or regional servers, b) when managed privately by healthcare
organisations, professional bodies or companies, and c) when managed
experimentally, eg in research programmes.'
As far as I'm aware the above has become openEHR foundation
policy as of January 1st 2010. I have to admit that these changes in
the IP status can't be found on the openEHR homepage at this moment.
Can somebody please place the renewed 'Statement on Copyright and Licensing of
Archetypes'
at a prominent place at the openEHR website.