Began CommunityHealth UseCase, focusing first on license choice.

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FIXME: This is assessment of what the API for storing the accounting data
does, so I think it's tough to do it as a list of questions.
### Evaluation of the [[Community Health|USeCases/CommunityHealth]]
- Is the [[license both determined as Free Software by FSF and OSI-approved|USeCases/CommunityHealth#license-approved]]?
- Is the [[license GPL-compatible||USeCases/CommunityHealth#gpl-compatible]]?

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- [[Reading and Reporting API|UseCases/ReadingAPI]]
- [[Storage API|UseCases/StorageAPI]]
- [[Health Assessment of the Development Community|UseCases/CommunityHealth]]

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# Health of the Development Community
## Good License Choice
<a id="license-approved"></a>
Obviously, code that's not under a license that is both
[OSI approved](http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) and is not
[approved by FSF as a Free Software license](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses)
is completely useless to us.
<a id="gpl-compatible"></a>
It would also be quite preferable if the code were under a
[a license that FSF has determined is GPL-compatible](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses),
so that code from GPL'd projects can be easily shared and GPL'd applications
can be built on top of anything we build. Code not under a GPL-compatible
license would face a high burden (i.e., the code would really have to be
absolutely wonderful in all other respects) to dictate such a license choice.