This repository contains a set of licenses frequently used in the CyberGIS.
The Humanitarian Information Unit has been developing a sophisticated geographic computing infrastructure referred to as the CyberGIS. The CyberGIS provides highly available, scalable, reliable, and timely geospatial services capable of supporting multiple concurrent projects. The CyberGIS relies on primarily open source projects, such as PostGIS, GeoServer, GDAL, GeoGit, OGR, and OpenLayers. The name CyberGIS is dervied from the term geospatial cyberinfrastructure.
The Rapid Opensource Geospatial User-Driven Enterprise (ROGUE) Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (JCTD) is a two-year research & development project developing the technology for distributed geographic data creation and synchronization in a disconnected environement. This new technology taken altogether is referred to as GeoSHAPE. See http://geoshape.org for more information. HIU is leveraging the technology developed through ROGUE to build out the CyberGIS into a robust globally distributed infrastruture.
The Humanitarian Information Unit through the Imagery to the Crowd initiative provides high-resolution commercial satellite imagery services for humanitarian purposes. Additionally, HIU is working to grow the base of the volunteers contributing open data to OpenStreetMap through the MapGive campagin.
All: NextView, MIT, Public Domain
Code: MIT, Public Domain
Data: Public Domain
Imagery: NextView
Description: The NextView license allows the Humanitarian Information Unit to support the creation of open data for humanitarian purposes with high-resolution commercial satellite imagery services with some restrictions.
Used for: High-Resolution Commercial Satellite Imagery Services for the Imagery to the Crowd Initiative (ITTC).
Description: The MIT license allows the Humanitarian Information Unit to release open source code while respecting the underlying licenses of project dependencies.
Used for: cybergis-client-examples, cybergis-client-templates
Description: A public domain license is used when projects has no dependencies or all dependencies are public domain, too. This license is frequently used for APIs.
Links: Raw
Used for: cybergis-client-spec
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