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Can I use Ohloh data to help power my commercial site?

While the Creative Commons Attribution license doesn’t prohibit commercial use of the data, the Ohloh TOU limits use of the site itself to non-commercial or business-internal uses only. The TOU also prohibits the use of automated “scraping” software or spiders to automatically visit pages and collect data. That said, you can use the Ohloh API to access the data programmatically which has its own API Use Agreement.

Posted in: Commercial Use, and the Ohloh API

About Rich Sands

I'm the Director of Developer Communities at Black Duck Software, and the product manager for Ohloh.