Akvo content and software is available under a number of open licenses.

Akvopedia

The Akvopedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. You can read more about this on the Akvopedia Copyrights page.

Akvo RSR and Akvo Direct

The Akvo RSR and Akvo Direct system is released under the GNU Affero General Public License. To read an overview and historical summary about the GNU AGPL License see this article at Wikipedia.

Akvo Contributor Agreement - The Akvo Foundation (Stichting Akvo) needs that all the contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Akvo projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or email) a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) [PDF form]. (This excludes the content of the Akvopedia which is covered by a separate agreement.) The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the Akvo Foundation and thereby allow us to defend the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given commit rights to an Akvo Foundation project.

Projects in Akvo RSS and Akvo Direct

Currently the copyright for the content in Akvo projects is controlled by the respective organisations or authors of the material.

Akvo Blog

The Akvo Blog by Stichting Akvo (Akvo Foundation) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands License. (CC-BY-NC-SA). Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.akvo.org/web/open_license/.

Subsystems on Akvo.org

There are a number of subsystems used on the Akvo.org web site and the Akvo platform, most which are covered by one Open License or anther, such as GPL for Drupal and Ubuntu or the Apache License for the Apache web server. We do not change these installations in any significant way, other than configurations. If we do we will republish the changes under the respective license of the host software.