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This policy is under construction and subject to change. |
First and foremost OpenHIE is a community of practice! Our Contribution Policy is simple: No matter how you want to contribute voluntary contributions are gratefully accepted as long as the OpenHIE community and all downstream users are allowed to use those contributions for our public benefit mission.
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To date, the OpenHIE community works with various software organizations to develop and build conformance to the OpenHIE specifications. We encourage all tool builders to actively participate within the OpenHIE community, regardless of their business models (ie, open source or proprietary). We generally do not release software as a community product. Nevertheless, the development of community tools (such as conformance testing software) might be needed in the future, and those activities will be made available under permissive open licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
Intellectual Property
- We accept contributions from people who identify themselves with an account on OpenHIE websites (an "OpenHIE ID"). Each person's profile, and all other materials he or she posts on OpenHIE websites, is available to the public. See the OpenHIE Privacy Policy for more information.
- We accept contributions Royalty-free. This means by contributing to OpenHIE websites you are agreeing materials are available to the global public good for their use without the need to pay any royalties or fees.
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