Thanks cam-lafit, We'll put that in the hopper and consider for the next rev of the service.

Hi Philip, Thanks for building the app. I really look forward to seeing it when you ship, so let us know when you do. And, yes, it is fine to use our logo. All we really want when you build an app ... [More] using our content is attribution. Thanks for your engagement, we really appreciate it! Bests, --Scott [Less]

Thanks for the feedback -- and your patience. So I think we have something now that is actionable. I decided that the back link language really didn't make much sense. So now it reads. Subject to the ... [More] terms and conditions of this section, Ohloh grants you a royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive, limited license to use, reproduce, modify and publicly display the "Ohloh Materials" ("Materials") on Ohloh’s website in and/or on any of your online publications and/or web pages, provided that you agree to attribute Ohloh as the source of any "Materials." [Less]

OK We have finally revised the license to be compatible with Wikipedia. We just had a different understanding of "modify" than the GFDL. We understood it as "to change," i.e. I changed my Kudorank ... [More] from a 4 to a 9 and then posted it on Wikipedia. Now we understand "modify" as in "to create a derivative work," which is fine with us. So the new language reads as follows. Ohloh grants you a royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive, limited license to use, reproduce, modify and publicly display the "Ohloh Materials" ("Materials") on Ohloh’s website in and/or on any of your online publications and/or web pages, provided that you agree to attribute Ohloh as the source of any "Materials" and that you include in your publications and/or web pages a link from your website to www.ohloh.net. As for third party content, you must receive permission from them to use their contributions, since they retain the copyright for their submissions. [Less]

So we finally (sigh!) straightened out our Terms of Service so that you can post any content generated by Ohloh on your site or on Wikipedia. I stuck to almost everything I outlined in my previous ... [More] post. The only departure is that Ohloh does not require that derivative work be licensed under the same terms as we license it. As always feedback is appreciated and, again, sorry for the delay in getting this done. [Less]

Yes, that would be an ideal use.

Hi Dartar, Jonan and ArneBab, Sorry about the delay in getting you an answer to this. We simply haven't paid as much attention to this as we should have. As you probably know we have three ways of ... [More] distributing our content to folks: From our web site Through our widgets Via our API As it turns out we spent more time thinking about our API and widgets and not enough about the site itself! Here is what we plan to do. This will apply to all Ohloh content. We will license our site content in such a way that the content may be used even for commercial purposes as long as Ohloh receives attribution and that the derivative work is licensed under the same terms. We will not allow screen scraping of our site, since that is a drag on site performance. If somebody wants to get a lot of data, we point them to our API, where you can make up to 1,000 queries a month. This content may also be used for commercial purposes as long as derivative works are licensed under the same terms. If you want to make more than 1,000 queries a day then we will have to make a special arrangement. If you have any comments or suggestions let me know. We are very open to feedback on this topic. We plan to make these changes to our terms next week. [Less]

Ah, of course. Yes, I think tagging by language is a great idea. And thanks in advance for the GSW translation!

Hi Mike, Thanks for the kind words about Ohloh. Your question about language is timely, since we were just discussing it. Almost half our traffic comes from non-English speaking countries, so we're ... [More] open to having entries written in the language that the author chooses. We also post press items on our site regardless of language. We even do occasional interviews and e-mails in French and German. With that said, It seems that the default language for Ohloh users is English. I think it would be great if you could translate the entry into English. I know I would appreciate that. I really like your idea of descriptions in multiple languages. As for tags, it is problematic for us to normalize tags across languages, so I don't think we will be doing anything with multi-langauge tags any time soon. If you or anybody else has more thoughts or opinions on the subject I would be thrilled to hear them. This is one thing that we very much want to get right. --s. [Less]

I like Stephen O'Grady's post about new business models for open source. It certainly rings true to me When I think about the future of Ohloh, I think about helping communities create more value for ... [More] themselves. That can be done by providing our data via APIs so that others can use our data in interesting and innovative ways. It can be done by providing data-driven social networking -- not social network that floods your inbox or is a body count of your friends. But, as you say, striking a balance is critical. [Less]