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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seems equally messy. Maybe sticking with the original license (DHIS2
that is) and assign copyright to WHO. Some guidelines for this would
be good.....I am not volunteering for this however. :)

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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/openhealth
> under 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
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