Making a Profit While Helping People Be Healthy is Good.
This working group operates under the philosophy of openness, sharing knowledge, and promoting FOSS. At the same time, the value
of an individual’s time and effort has to be recognized and compensated appropriately. And each of us has to earn a living to be able to
put food on our family’s table.
In that spirit, we want to make crystal clear that although the IEEEP2407 standards themselves will be free, and some software
implementations of those standards might be available as FOSS, it is NOT expected (much less necessary for the success of this
standard) that any or all IEEEP2407-based services will ever be free of charge or restrictions on their use.
Each institution and individual willing to invest the time and resources needed to deploy and support IEEEP2407-based services,
and to create content for those services, will make a decision as to what type of compensation (if any) is expected from consumers for
the use of PHI-based services.
To be specific, each individual might choose an appropriate compensation mechanism:
No compensation: “Use it at will”. The BSD software license is an example of this model.
Monetary compensation. The traditional capitalistic approach.
Attribution: “Use it, give me authorship credit.” The Creative Commons CC licenses best represents this model.
Retribution: “Use it, improve it, and share back with the community.” The GPL software license is the best example of this model.
By participating in this project you explicitly acknowledge this philosophical framework.
