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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Copyright to WHO makes some sense to me, but it will be too messy to use a
different license, I think.

It is preferable to have things in one project under the same license.

Alternatively, I suppose it could be put on
https://launchpad.net/openhealthunder WHO copyright and license?

Knut

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi there. I was chatting with Knut about this, and thought I should
> bring it forward to the list. Recently, I have contributed some
> reports and SQL to the /resources directory on trunk. I have not
> included any copyright or licensing information there. I would assume
> that this particular information should be copyrighted by the WHO, as
> they were the ones paying me during the consultancy. WHO also had some
> issues with some of the OpenSource licenses, and there was a derived
> license developed during the OpenHealth  prototype development
> process. So, in this particular case, I would like to suggest that the
> stuff that I committed should be amended somehow with a WHO copyright
> and likely licensed with the special WHO license. However, this brings
> up the bigger issue of how to handle contributions by those of us that
> are not part of the University of Oslo, who is the copyright holder
> for the main chunk of code. Bob, maybe you have a solution here?
> Anybody else have thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
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Cheers,
Knut Staring