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The details around intellectual property contributions in particular are often tricky to understand and sometimes difficult to communicate effectively. That is why we have provided the specific guidance below. OpenMRS accepts intellectual property contributions of all sorts and then collects them into OpenMRS software distributions that are licensed to the public under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0). As described more fully below, all contributions are reviewed to ensure that their own open source licenses are compatible with the MPL 2.0 license.

If you have questions about any aspect of the OpenMRS Contribution Policy, please contact community@openmrs.com. 

Contributions of Intellectual Property

The term "intellectual property" is fraught with difficulty in the software world. Software includes both functional and expressive works, and it sometimes arrives encumbered with many varieties of legal interests that can be owned, licensed, monopolized or sold, and integrated into or limited for its use in derivative or advanced software,OpenMRS projects accept intellectual property contributions of all sorts and then collect them into OpenMRS software distributions that are licensed to the public under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0). As The OpenMRS project collects such contributed software into larger packages that we distribute as a collective work under the MPL 2.0 license. To do so, we must ensure that the open source licenses applying to those contributions are compatible with the MPL 2.0 and that there are no intellectual property encumbrances that would prevent the use of our collective software for health care delivery worldwide.

 As is described in the OpenMRS Copyright Policy, we respect all copyrights and copyright licenses.

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