[License-review] Request for approval by license steward: Tidepool Open Access to Health Data Software License

[Lawrence Rosen]

Richard Fontana wrote:

> I don't think those are exclusively or particularly lawyer questions.

> These are a combination of policy issues and textual interpretation

> (where the main relevant texts are this license and the OSD).

> Lawyers may be able to provide some insight, especially regarding

> how the license itself is likely to be interpreted in practice. 

> Not sure how much more useful lawyers qua lawyers are, in

> general, for things like this.

 

+1. 

 

This license should also be discussed on lists at Creative Commons
<http://creativecommons.org/>  or at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
<https://www.eff.org/> . They are the experts on privacy of electronic
information and the licensing of non-software. 

 

Most of us are not also on those lists so please let us know if they
recommend your license.

 

/Larry

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Fontana [mailto:fontana at sharpeleven.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 7:06 AM
To: License submissions for OSI review
Subject: Re: [License-review] Request for approval by license steward:
Tidepool Open Access to Health Data Software License

 

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:32:16 -0700

Josh Berkus < <mailto:josh at postgresql.org> josh at postgresql.org> wrote:

 

> So, I think there's a couple of questions to resolve regarding this 

> license which are orthagonal discussions:

> 

> 1) is it open source and original or not?  That's a lawyer question, 

> really; the license certainly looks open source from a developer 

> perspective.

 

I don't think those are exclusively or particularly lawyer questions.

These are a combination of policy issues and textual interpretation (where
the main relevant texts are this license and the OSD). Lawyers may be able
to provide some insight, especially regarding how the license itself is
likely to be interpreted in practice. Not sure how much more useful lawyers
qua lawyers are, in general, for things like this. 

 

> 2) does it do what the Tidepool foundation actually wants?  That's a 

> much more complicated question, needing both developer and lawyer 

> input.

> 

> I think question (2) kind of goes beyond what license-review as a list 

> does, alathough I'm personally quite interested in it.

 

I agree with that.  

 

- RF

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