Contact Tracing: Computer Software
(asked on 3rd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government to what extent they retain ownership of any intellectual property related to the development of the NHSX contact tracing app.
This question was answered on 15th June 2020
The intellectual property associated with the National Health Service COVID-19 app is retained by the Department. In order to promote transparency, the source code for the app is published under version 3.0 of the Open Government Licence. This licence allows NHSX to make the code Open Source whilst retaining its intellectual property rights related to the development of the app.