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IHE Testing Tools IHE Testing Tools Intellectual Property PolicyIntellectual Property Policy

David Monteau, INRIADavid Monteau, INRIA

Feb 2008Feb 2008

An Open Source projectAn Open Source project

The IHE « Gazelle » testing platform is an open source development project

1) Open development project

The project has a « permanent » development team and 2 Managers : Steve Moore (MIR/North America) and Eric Poiseau (INRIA/Europe)

IHE calls for external contributions

A Gazelle community

2) Source code is feely available and distributed with an open source licence

OSI LicenceWeak copyleft

Final licence choice currently under review : BSD, MPL, L-GPL, etc.

An Open Source projectAn Open Source project

Legal Agreement for Contibutors

- Perpetually licence IHE the right to distribute their contribution as part of the IHE Gazelle release (on the Forge) under the terms agreed by IHE (incl. choice of licence)

- Declare that they have the right to licence their contribution to IHE (either own IP rights, or right to sublicence)

- Guarantee that their contribution does not embed software with a licence uncompatible with the IHE-chosen licence (incl. GPL-like, « viral » licence) or are patented

- Retain their Intellectual Property Right on their contribution