Re: [Health] Question about license of ICD10 data

[Luis Falcon]

Dear Chris and Edgar. Dear all :

Thanks both for the very valuable feedback !

On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:55:11 -0400
Chris Zimmerman <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> As far as I know, ICD-9 is in the public domain but for ICD-10, WHO
> is the copyright holder. They can grant licenses --
> http://www.who.int/about/licensing/Internettext_FAQ.pdf. I don't know
> about the licence progression of thisse data? It may be clearer for
> you to try for a non-commercial/research license directly from them?


We've done so already :)

In fact, GNU Solidario has signed agreements with United Nations
(UNU) to deploy GNU Health, and cooperate with WHO in different
projects.

For instance,  we have joined forces with WHO for projects such as the
Bafia district Hospital in Cameroon, with the WHO regional office, in
the context of Universal Health Coverage.

We also use the WHO essential list of medicines, and the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, to name other
resources from WHO.

Of course, this applies only to GNU Health, as a non-commercial
project, with the goal of providing equity and freedom in healthcare. 

All the best
Luis

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> On March 31, 2018 3:05 PM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > ​​
> > 
> > Dear Sebastian
> > 
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:46:33 +0200
> > 
> > Sebastian Hellmann address@hidden wrote:
> >   
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > > I am from DBpedia, which focuses on Open Data. We would like to
> > > load
> > > 
> > > ICD-10 on the new DBpedia Databus, but we are a bit unsure
> > > because of
> > > 
> > > the license.
> > > 
> > > We can see that you have the data at
> > > gnuhealth-3.2.9/health_icd10/data
> > > 
> > > Our questions are:
> > > 
> > > 1.  How did you manage to get this data under the GPL license?  
> > 
> > The GNU Health project is GPL v3+, thus the package health_icd10.
> > 
> > We have created the XML data files from the public ICD10
> > 
> > definition. The disease groups are specific to GNU Health, but also
> > 
> > released under GPL v3.
> > 
> > The GNU Health data model allows different coding systems for health
> > 
> > conditions to be used.
> >   
> > > 2.  DBpedia will be (Open Data Commons Attribution License) ODC-By
> > >     
> > >     with the individual parts licensed under other licenses
> > > ranging from 
> > >     CC-0 to BY, SA and NC . However, we don't know how we can
> > > treat the 
> > >     GPL for data.
> > >     
> > > 
> > > Probably like this: if you derive a database from a GPL source the
> > > 
> > > some sort of copyleft has to apply, but no attribution? If the
> > > data
> > > 
> > > is used in a program it is CC-0 as it falls under the
> > > communication
> > > 
> > > part, i.e. application communicating with the database software:
> > > 
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Linking_and_derived_works
> > >   
> > 
> > I would suggest that if you take the GNU Health datafiles as source,
> > 
> > you can give us credit in a way you feel appropriate. The ICD10
> > codes
> > 
> > are already at Wikipedia as CC SA. See
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10
> > 
> > But, most importantly, I am not a lawyer, so don't take my word for
> > 
> > it, specially on the use.
> > 
> > Hope it helps :)
> > 
> > All the best
> > 
> > Luis
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > GNU Health: Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
> > 
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