Re: [Gnumed-devel] An (adequately) open-licenced knowledge resource for medicine whcih may be synergistic with FLOSS software for GP

[Tim Churches]

Adrian Midgley (in the office) <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> May I draw your attention to http://ganfyd.org
> 
> This is a derivative of Wikipedia and the Creative Commons project 
> although it differs from each.
> 
> I designed the licence.
> 
> For countries other than the commonwealth ones listed, I envisage a 
> similar project starting up in due course, but have no immediate plans 
> to make that happen.  I believe that assistance could be arranged with 
> starting material but that is for the future.

Adrian,

I fail to understand the point of your Ganfyd license, which only allows 
registered medical practitioners to modify content - presumably the limitation 
is an attempt to enforce some assumed or putative level of quality assurance on 
chnages to content - a rather big leap of faith IMHO - but which also includes 
Section 5 which is a general disclaimer and waiver saying that the authors or 
contributors take no responsibility for the contents. I suppose one could argue 
that registered medical practitioners have more to lose in terms of reputation 
is they contribute inaccurate or misleading information. I sthat the rationale?

Personally I don't like the licensing/contribution arrangements at all, because 
I work in the field of public health with a mixture of medically-qualified and 
non-medically-qualified colleagues. Disenfranchising the latter makes no sense 
to me, as they make as valuable a contribution (and very often more valuable) 
to public health as the medical people.

Tim C

> 
> I wonder whether GNUMED might feel that this was an appropriate place to 
> 
> store the justification for eg schedules of immunisation?
> 
> I also anticipate that people interested in GNUMED will be likely to be 
> interested in the project and the product of ganfyd.
> 
> -- 
> Midgley
> 
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