Stream: implementers
Topic: FHIRPath implementation
Md Nazrul Islam (Oct 01 2019 at 17:17):
Hi All,
I am starting to make an opensource Python library called fhirpath (an implementation of FHIRPath STU1) https://pypi.org/project/fhirpath/
under GPL v3 license.
I did mention, the copyright into ("© Copyright HL7® logo, FHIR® logo and the flaming fire are registered trademarks owned by Health Level Seven International") to HL7 in the project homepage.
My question, should I seek formal permission from HL7 to use ´fhirpath´ as python package name? If yes what would be the procedure?
Feel free to give me your kind of suggestions.
Thanks, in advance.
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 01 2019 at 18:11):
If you're willing, you might consider a more commercial-friendly license than GPL. A lot of environments can't touch GPL code because of viral licensing concerns.
In answer to your question, if you want to include the word 'fhir' in any part of a product name (including fhirpath), then you need to request permission. This is talked about on the http://hl7.org/fhir/license.html page. Specifically, for a product, you need to fill out the form here: http://www.fhir.org/product-license
Thanks for asking and trying to do the right thing :)
Md Nazrul Islam (Oct 02 2019 at 06:31):
@Lloyd McKenzie Thank you so much.
One thing to mention, http://www.fhir.org/product-license this page doesn't exist. Any alternative?
Grahame Grieve (Oct 02 2019 at 06:32):
moved to http://www.hl7.org/about/product.trademark.application.cfm
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 02 2019 at 14:12):
@Grahame Grieve Can we set up a redirect - the core spec versions still point to the old place.
Grahame Grieve (Oct 02 2019 at 19:12):
actually, I thought I had. Somewhere there was a broken link in the past...
Grahame Grieve (Oct 02 2019 at 19:16):
fixed
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