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

Contributions of Intellectual Property

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, or limited for its use in derivative or advanced software,The OpenMRS project collects such contributed software into larger packages that we distribute as collective works under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0 license) with Health Care Disclaimer. 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.

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  1. We accept contributions only from people who identify themselves with an account on the OpenMRS websiteOpenMRS websites (an "OpenMRS ID"). Each person's profile, and all other materials he or she posts on the OpenMRS websitewebsites, is available to the public. See the OpenMRS Privacy Policy for more information.
  2. All contributions are required to be the contributor's own work licensed to OpenMRS under an approved open source license, or a work that is licensed to that contributor for redistribution to OpenMRS under an approved open source license. OpenMRS project teams have responsibility for knowing their contributors and those contributions, as would be expected of any professional software project. Random contributions from unknown project participants without information suitable for a NOTICE file are likely not to be accepted by an OpenMRS project.
  3. OpenMRS projects may accept ideas, suggestions, bug - fixes, and the like other similar contributions from the public. The professional and academic rules of behavior in such situations say that we should identify and acknowledge those informal and formal contributions. A NOTICE file included with each OpenMRS distribution will identify the provenance of all contributions, to the best of the contributors' and the project team's current knowledge and belief. Each contributor is responsible for providing enough information so that the appropriate OpenMRS project team can prepare a correct NOTICE file.

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The NOTICE file that accompanies every formal distribution of software by an OpenMRS project identifies each third-party component in that software and the open source or Creative Commons license under which that component is available to the public. The following information, if available, will also be included in the NOTICE file:

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