Does any development work done by a commercial organization for a cancer center on caBIG® -funded work become open source?
Yes, the development done by a commercial vendor for the participating Cancer Center becomes open source if this development is funded by the caBIG® initiative. All funded caBIG® projects must comply with the caBIG® principles – open source, open access, open development and federated. The Cancer Center is funded to either create or retrofit applications to be caBIG® compatible, so this development by the subcontracted vendor becomes open source. Work for a Cancer Center on projects not funded by caBIG® is not required to be open source. In addition, while the code is generated as open source, caBIG® has a “commercial friendly” license that permits the incorporation of caBIG® supported code into proprietary applications (with no IP reach through).
Related Questions
- Does any development work done by a commercial organization for a cancer center on caBIG® - funded work or directly funded through a competitive Request For Proposals (RFP) and contract become open source?
- Can a commercial organization take the open source software that they have previously developed for a caBIG® Cancer Center participant and roll this code into their existing applications and market or sell the applications with this code incorporated?
- Can a caBIG® funded cancer center use a commercial vendor for undertaking development activities on caBIG® projects?
