IHE Testing and Tools Committee Teleconference Minutes 2008-04-14

Mintues

IP Policy

A. License terms

Reviewed the principles for licensing terms required to determine licensing language. Steve Moore laid these out as follows:

1. Is the software open source? Yes, now we need to be more specific.

2. Will we allow vendors to include the software in their own products (test tools or their own clinical applications) without royalties? Yes

3. Will we allow companies to use the tools for internal testing without royalties? Yes

4. Will we allow health care institutions to use the tools for testing without royalties? Yes

5. Will we allow other organizations to uses the tools for testing? This may include an SDO or some other national initiative that is not a member of IHE. Yes

6. Will we license the software to prevent others from creating their own version (or fork)? No, too much time/energy to try to do that.

7. Will we allow some national IHE initiative (IHE Elbonia) wants to use the software without paying fees for the software? Yes (who would they pay the fees to?)

8. Will we prevent other organizations from setting up a service model to support the software and/or run tests with the software? No

9. Can individuals or organizations who participate in the development of the software enter into contracts with other sponsors to support the software and/or run Connectathons over and above what we do today? Yes

Additional principles that might be considered in determining license:

• Restrict forking of private code base?
• License should come from existing OSI licenses, not be invented anew

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2. Technical Charter

3. Committee Governance

4. Collaborative Work with NIST, MITRE Corp.