NHID-Clinical
Copyright 2026 Brianna Nicole Baynard-Malone

This repository is licensed in two parts, because it contains two different
kinds of work.

  1. SOFTWARE — Apache License 2.0 (see LICENSE)

     The policy engine, adapters, conformance runner, scripts, tests,
     API and CLI. Concretely: src/, adapters/, scripts/, tests/, tools/,
     functions/, middleware/, simulator/, and the top-level Python modules.

     Apache-2.0 is used here rather than a Creative Commons licence because
     Creative Commons advises against applying CC licences to software: they
     carry no patent grant and no warranty disclaimer written for code, which
     makes them difficult for an organisation's counsel to clear for use.

  2. SPECIFICATION AND DOCUMENTATION — CC BY 4.0 (see LICENSE-DOCS)

     The normative control text and the prose around it: docs/, specs/,
     schema/, conformance/ suite definitions, content/, and the website
     pages. This is the part intended to be quoted, adapted and cited, and
     CC BY 4.0 remains the right licence for it.

Where a single file mixes both — for example a Python module whose docstring
quotes normative control text — the code is Apache-2.0 and the quoted
specification text remains CC BY 4.0.

NHID-Clinical is a voluntary open proposal. It is not an accredited standard,
not a certification, and not a regulatory requirement.
