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This Memorandum of Understanding is inclusive of the Project Agreement signed in July 2011 to govern the ChaloBEST collaboration.

This MoU was first signed in January 2012 to govern expenditure of the IIHS Sankranti Transform Urban India prize and grant won by ChaloBEST in November 2011. Since then new signatories have joined in July and December 2012 and April 2013.

All individuals recipients of funding and recognised partners of ChaloBEST agree to abide by the terms and conditions as stated below.

ChaloBEST Partners

ChaloBEST Entity

  • From January to April 2012, ChaloBEST will be funded by an implementation grant from [http://iihs.co.in Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS)]. The receiving entity for this grant will be [http://sparcsys.com Sparc Systems Ltd.], one of the founding partners of ChaloBEST.
  • During the start-up period we will explore registration of the trademark for ChaloBEST and assign it to Sparc Systems Ltd, pending transfer to a new ChaloBEST entity.
  • During the start-up period we will explore different organisational models for ChaloBEST, such as a company, partnership, or society, especially a "cooperative commuter society" in which members can subscribe shares.

ChaloBEST Team & Identity

  • Partners must work for the ChaloBEST project under a single brand to increase recognition and encourage collaboration.
  • Names, logos and acknowledgements of all partner organisations will accompany all future publicity of ChaloBEST.
  • All external public communication about ChaloBEST by partners must be reported and shared with the group on the mailing list.
  • Until we decide the constitution of the ChaloBEST entity, all copyright on code or contributions will be assigned to Sparc Systems Ltd, pending transfer to the new entity.

Software and Source Code

  • Any software source code written by ChaloBEST will be published as GNU Public License v3. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  • Copyright for any original code produced will always remain with the individual copyright holder(s), who will assign their copyright to Sparc Systems/ChaloBEST.
  • Copyright on code or contributions once assigned to Sparc Systems/ChaloBEST cannot be revoked.
  • All software source code will be in a public repository (svn, bzr, github), while all data will be in a private repository.

Data Policies

  • BEST raw database tables cannot be made public, and will be hosted in a private repository for use by ChaloBEST developers.
  • The BEST database has been given to us under non-commercial license and is to be solely used for for educational and non-profit purposes.
  • All user-related data and activity logs collected from users of the ChaloBEST services will be anonymised as far as possible.
  • All users who share data such as their location, phone number, or contribute information via crowdsourcing must explicitly opt-in by registering with ChaloBEST.
  • There should be no misuse of user data by any of the parties comprising ChaloBEST.
  • All data shared with and published by ChaloBEST (apart from anonymous user data) will be published under Open Database License (ODbL) http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary

Resource Disbursement

  • In our Project Agreement of July 2011, we agreed the following items can be expensed by partners: writing code, collecting data, database development, computing infrastructure, hardware prototyping, design work and expenses for meetings/workshops.
  • Phased disbursements of any funding accelerate development, ease financial pressures, and keep the partners accountable to agreed goals and deliverables.
  • Payments are always made for the entire scope of work. Recipient partners agree to refund already disbursed amounts for opting out before delivering their parts of the project to the staisfaction of other partners.
  • In keeping with the terms of the GPLV3 and ODBL licences, contributions cannot be withdrawn, even if a partner withdraws from the project.
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