License and copyright

[croeder]

• [ ] What are UNC's requirements?
  • A group at CU interested in preserving Intellectual Property for potential privatization required a lab I worked in to review potential business value with them.
• [ ] What are lab requirements/desires for open source?
  • It seems MIT, Apache and BSD are popular here and require open source but don't restrict business, and don't require the same licenses for derivative works.
• In general (IANAL: I am not a lawyer, this is not advice) work for hire as we do means the employer, UNC owns or should own the copyright.

TL;DR

Apache v2 seems a refined permissive license. It includes patent rights that BSD-3 does not

Common Licenses

From OSI

• Permissive
  • MIT
  • BSD 3-clause
  • Apache v2
• Viral/copyleft
  • LGPL
  • Eclipse
  • GPL
  • MPL

Usage in the community

Some Licensed Apps in Monarch

• Monarch App BSD-3 "Copyright (c) 2022, Glass Ships"
• Phenopacket Store BSD-3 BSD 3-Clause License "Copyright (c) 2022, Monarch Initiative"
• oncoexporter MIT License Copyright (c) 2023, The Monarch Initiative
• monarch_pheval The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2024 Monarch Initiative
• mondo-ingest, kboom none
• phenologs, koza, monarch-ui, embiggen BSD 3-Clause License Copyright (c) 2022, Monarch Initiative All rights reserved.
• loinc2hpo BSD 3-Clause License Copyright (c) 2017, The Jackson Laboratory All rights reserved.

Others

• Hunter lab projects are under eclipse, MIT or BSD-3. Some are copyrighted by individuals, some by the regents of the university of Colorado, some by the lab "UC Denver Anschutz CCP"
• N3C don't seem to have license files
• OHDSI
  • The Book of OHDSI is under CC0 1.0
  • Atlas is under Apache2
  • the Common Data Model and others have none

@oneilsh Does the lab use a specific license? Does UNC insist on copyright?

[tursynay]

@ShahimEssaid , is this something we need to think about for FHIR mapping?

[ShahimEssaid]

I think it would be good to figure this out, in general, and apply it wherever it is applicable but I don't have any experience in this area. We should understand any copyright issues as well.