i2b2 bespoke license

[dckc]

I see we've inherited the i2b2 license. I took issue with it recently:

• CORE-260 i2b2 bespoke license risks costly legal review by potential users

Since you have to have an account to see issues in that system (which I raised as 261) I include the description here:

At AMIA, I was talking with Leon Rozenblit of Prometheus Research after his panel presentation and he reminded me that i2b2 has a bespoke license, which means potential users may have to spend legal resources reviewing it.

When I first read the license, I thought it was MPL ( https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0 ) but in his experience, it's different enough that laywers have to study it. And now that I look at it, it is quite different.

https://github.com/i2b2/i2b2-core-server/blob/dea27a2c0e483e6f9234c18569795b1bc47cf22e/edu.harvard.i2b2.crc/i2b2%20license%202.1-1159.txt

I suggest you adopt an approved OSI license while you're changing the license to reflect copyright transfer to the i2b2 / transmart foundation. (The copyright is being transferred, yes?)

ref:

• IIT08: Panel - Rigor and Reproducibility from Four Perspectives

cc @mprittie