All P2 related technology that PSI develops would be release as Open Source. Beside a public Git repository we should provide documentation, exemples and a feedback mechanism for support and collaborative development. We also need to clearly state the license for PSI work.
Licensing for PSI’s development
Work to be licensed includes:
Locator 2.0 API & web library
Moodle eLearning Chatbot
DHIS2 web apps
FHIR utilities / OpenHIM mediators
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Licensing evaluation (August 2023)
There is more than 100 open source license (Licenses – Open Source Initiative). Below is the top 5 mostly used licenses and similarity and differences between them, and some of their key characteristics.
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Author | Apache Software Foundation | University of California, Berkeley | Eclipse Foundation | Free Software Foundation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sub-licensing | Permissive | Permissive | Copyleft | Copyleft | Permissive |
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