Open Policy for Software, Algorithms and Models

The Open Policy for OpenEPI requires that relevant entities aiming at endorsement by OpenEPI, openly license and make publicly available all underlying software source code, algorithms, models, components and any training data sets to replicate production ready versions of the technologies developed.

The technology must be available for reuse under the following terms:

• Software must be published under an open source software license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
• All source code, algorithms and models must be openly available for reuse from a publicly available repository like Github or Gitlab.
• The documentation included in the publicly available repository must give all the necessary information needed for re-implementation of the source code.
• Producers of software, algorithms and models shall retain sufficient copyright in their work to ensure they have the necessary rights to openly license and share these works under the open policy.
• All training data (for machine learning) must be dedicated to the public domain using the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain Dedication, or licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), or an equivalent license.
• Algorithms and models must be made available under standardized technical formats.
• All documentation, learning resources and any other content related to the technology must be made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), or an equivalent license.

This policy applies to all relevant Software, Algorithms and Models created or funded by OpenEPI. Compliance with this Open Policy is a requirement for receiving OpenEPI support or being linked or referred to, or disclosed, reused, recombined, recommended or shared by OpenEPI. Compliance will be continuously reviewed and responsible providers or authors will be contacted when they are non-compliant.