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1.2 License and Legal Terms

1.2.1 Disclaimer and Warning of Use

FHIR Resource definitions developed by HL7 are derived from the considerable collective experience of the HL7 membership and wide community feedback from the development and application of a spectrum of health care interoperability solutions. However, Resource definitions are generalized to support multiple contexts of use. It is the responsibility of the persons or organizations using these Resources to ensure their use is fit for the particular purpose in which they are used, including validation for clinical and operational use.

See also the specific warnings associated with use of the DSTU.

1.2.2 FHIR License

Copyright © 2011+ HL7.

This document is produced and distributed by HL7 under the terms of HL7® Governance and Operations Manual relating to Intellectual Property (Section 16), specifically its copyright, trademark and patent provisions.

This document is licensed under Creative Commons "No Rights Reserved" (CC0).

"HL7" and "FHIR" are registered trademarks of HL7.

1.2.2.1 Additional information about the license

• FHIR is © and ® HL7. The right to maintain FHIR remains vested in HL7
• You can redistribute FHIR
• You can create derivative specifications or implementation-related products and services
• You can't claim that HL7 or any of its members endorses your derived [thing] because it uses content from this specification
• Neither HL7 nor any of the contributors to this specification accept any liability for your use of FHIR

While HL7 places no restrictions on the right to copy the FHIR specification or to create derivative works, HL7 protects the "FHIR" trademark carefully. This means that:

• You cannot publish an altered version of the FHIR specification unless it clearly identifies that it is a derivative specification, not FHIR itself
• Derivative Specifications cannot redefine what conformance to FHIR means
• The letter sequence "FHIR" can only appear as part of a product name with specific written agreement from HL7
• You can only use the FHIR logo as part of a commercial product with specific written agreement from HL7
• When used in other contexts, the word "FHIR" and the "FHIR" logo should bear the ™ symbol

Contact for these agreements: fmgcontact@hl7.org.

1.2.3 LOINC License Statement

This material contains content from LOINC® (http://loinc.org). The LOINC table, LOINC codes, and LOINC panels and forms file are copyright © 1995-2014, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) Committee and available at no cost under the license at http://loinc.org/terms-of-use.