I would like to hear your thoughts on the use of ODK tools in the
for-profit sector: private companies, consulting firms, or even
organization/not-for-profits who retain a profit margin as service
providers, etc.
I am not 100% familiar with the licensing details. I know that some
open-source licenses such as the MIT license enable an organization to use
and and modify code as long as the original source license details stay
there. An organization could then sell or use this while doing profit and
this would not go against the open source license, as long as the original
source license is still included somewhere.
On a similar topic, the questions I hear often are:
Can a private company use ODK as-is on consulting assignments/projects
where the firm has a profit margin on the implementation of the project?
Can a private company use and modify ODK on consulting
assignments/projects where the firm has a profit margin on the
implementation of the project?
Does Google (as the instigator of the project) or the ODK organization
retain any rights over the data collected or stored via ODK Collect, ODK
Aggregate, or generally via Google AppEngine? (I'm not talking about
security or encryption here)
No, absolutely not, you own your data - no one else. We even
provide for ODK Aggregate to be run on your own server so that no data
goes into the cloud.
By the way, Google is NOT the originator or instigator of the project,
but an early and generous supporter and current user.
It is a University of Washington/Computer Science & Engineering
project under the Change Group (change.washington.edu) umbrella at UW.
We do ask that if you do make use of the code, that you give a shout
out to the ODK team at UW and link to http://opendatakit.org as
prominently as you can. If you make good profits, it would be nice to
contribute back at our donations page
(http://opendatakit.org/participate/donate/).
Thanks,
Gaetano
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Maxim wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to hear your thoughts on the use of ODK tools in the for-profit
> sector: private companies, consulting firms, or even
> organization/not-for-profits who retain a profit margin as service
> providers, etc.
>
> I am not 100% familiar with the licensing details. I know that some
> open-source licenses such as the MIT license enable an organization to use
> and and modify code as long as the original source license details stay
> there. An organization could then sell or use this while doing profit and
> this would not go against the open source license, as long as the original
> source license is still included somewhere.
>
> On a similar topic, the questions I hear often are:
>
> 1) Can a private company use ODK as-is on consulting assignments/projects
> where the firm has a profit margin on the implementation of the project?
> 2) Can a private company use and modify ODK on consulting
> assignments/projects where the firm has a profit margin on the
> implementation of the project?
> 3) Does Google (as the instigator of the project) or the ODK organization
> retain any rights over the data collected or stored via ODK Collect, ODK
> Aggregate, or generally via Google AppEngine? (I'm not talking about
> security or encryption here)
>
> Regards,
>
> Maxim
>
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