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Re: Open Source NHIN RFP Set-Aside
by Will Ross on Thursday July 07, @12:08PM
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| The first open source amendment, released July 1st, does not need to specify the "implementation" because it is already specified in the full RFP. Neither does the second open source amendment, released July 6th. The RFP distinguishes between "implementation" and "architecture" (Section H.1).
"It is the Government's intention to allow the Contractor to obtain copyright(s) ... to the implementation of the prototype. It is the Government's intention to permit the Contractor to commercialize their implementations." (Section H.1)
The implementation is the exchange of data, not the local EHR. Separate from the implementation, the "architecture" of the implementation is to be placed in the public domain.
"...the Government intends that all data rights relating to the architecture of the prototype will be committed to the public domain." (Section H.1)
The part I wonder about is the relationship between "public domain" and a FSF or OSF compliant license. Does this imply a fork in the project in order to strand some "architecture" in the public domain ? IANAL, so my brain doesn't intuitively "get" what is likely to happen here.
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