From: Terrie Rose Wheeler Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 10:25 AM To: Hauschke, Christian; Herbert, Bruce E; dragan.ivanovic-ctr@lyrasis.org; Hahn, Douglas C Subject: FW: VIVO License question This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. See Dean’s response below; let’s discuss further … From: Dean Blackmar Krafft Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 2:37 PM To: Terrie Wheeler , Mike Conlon Cc: "Paul J. Albert" Subject: Re: VIVO License question Hi Terrie! You've caught me in our travel trailer looking out at Lake Ontario at the edge of the 1000 Islands. So I think the answer is that we are doing well and enjoying retirement. With regard to the VIVO license, I believe that this would require transferring copyright from Cornell to Lyrasis, I'm not sure that the IP folks at Cornell (whatever it is they are called now) would be OK with that. The license is very open. I think that the only issue that would arise would be if someone else violated the license, in which case Cornell would be the one who could pursue legal action. I suspect that Cornell would also want to maintain the non- endorsement clause and the disclaimer of liability - but I am not Cornell. If new code is being written to add on to or replace existing VIVO code, then that copyright could potentially be held by Lyrasis, so long as they had agreements with the people contributing the code. I do miss you and all my VIVO colleagues, but I have to say that given the challenges that Cornell and the Library have faced over the past year, I'm pretty happy to be retired - and I have so many projects! Feel free to contact me any time if you think I can provide any useful information - although pretty soon I'll be following in the footsteps of Jon Corson-Rikert, who says that he has happily forgotten all the technical library stuff he used to know, and moved on to new projects. All the best, Dean From: Terrie Rose Wheeler Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 10:49 PM To: Dean Blackmar Krafft ; Mike Conlon Cc: Paul J. Albert Subject: VIVO License question Hi Dean and Mike, I hope this note finds you each well! A voice from your past regarding the VIVO license! As we have a new VIVO technical lead for the project, a lot is being reviewed. It was noted that the VIVO license has a copyright for Cornell University. The question arose to whether that should stay as is, or could this be transferred to Lyrasis, which is now the “home” for the VIVO Project and many other open source software solutions. Here is a link to the VIVO license: https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/blob/main/LICENSE Paul and I agreed to see if we could get your thoughts on this. We welcome any feedback or approaches you may wish us to consider. I do hope you are both enjoying retirement! While I do get to hear from Mike through the VIVO Project, I do miss hearing from you, Dean! Sincerely, Terrie Terrie R. Wheeler, AMLS Director, Samuel J. Wood Library and C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center Weill Cornell Medicine Information Technologies & Services 1300 York Avenue New York, NY 10065 T 646.962.2469 tew2004@med.cornell.edu