Ed-Fi Community Intellectual Property Disclosure Policy

This Ed-Fi Community’s Intellectual Property Disclosure Policy (“Policy”) applies to each participant and community member (“Member”) of an Ed-Fi Alliance-sponsored community work group or advisory group (collectively, “Ed-Fi Community”) affiliated with the Ed-Fi Alliance, LLC, (“Alliance”), a Texas limited liability company exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The Alliance provides a free K-12 education Data Standard to school districts and vendors (collectively, “Adopters”), and provides accompanying tools and materials through a royalty-free license.

The goals of the Ed-Fi Community include facilitating the adoption, implementation and use of the Ed-Fi Data Standard and other Ed-Fi tools to improve the functionality and interoperability of K-12 education data (the “Ed-Fi Mission”). The purpose of this Policy is to outline the expectations regarding disclosure of Intellectual Property (defined below) by members of the Ed-Fi Community. 

Each Member is encouraged to share with the Ed-Fi Community Intellectual Property that furthers the Ed-Fi Mission, subject to the terms below. A Member shall only share Intellectual Property which is owned by the Member, or which Member has a license or other permission or authority to share with the Alliance and Ed-Fi Community.

“Intellectual Property” means any ideas, information, concepts, notes, designs, specifications, technical information, processes, methods, reports, software, flowcharts, systems or improvements, enhancements or modifications, assessments or evaluations, copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, uniform resource locators, trade dress, brand features, know-how, moral rights, contract rights and other proprietary rights of any type under the laws of any applicable government authority.

For any Intellectual Property disclosed by the Member through the Member’s participation in the Ed-Fi Community, the Member shall allow the Alliance to share and distribute said Intellectual Property by the mechanism identified by the charter of the applicable Ed-Fi Community work group (which shall be either (a) granting the Alliance a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish, display, create further derivative works and sublicense to Alliance’s Adopters such Intellectual Property (which the Alliance shall sublicense); or (b) agreeing that the Alliance shall make such Intellectual Property available to the Ed-Fi Community via the Apache 2.0 license.)

If a Member wishes to share with the Ed-Fi Community Intellectual Property not subject to the terms above, the Member shall first contact the Alliance to discuss the terms under which the Intellectual Property will be licensed to or shared with the Alliance and/or the Ed-Fi Community. 

By participating in the Ed-Fi Community, the Member acknowledges receipt of this Policy and compliance with its terms.

Last Revision 03 Dec 2019