This Github organization was created for use by CDC programs to collaborate on public health surveillance related projects in support of the CDC Surveillance Strategy. This third party web application is not hosted by the CDC, but is used by CDC and its partners to share information and collaborate on software.
This repository serves as a template for other repositories to follow in order to provide the appropriate notices for users in regards to privacy protection, contribution, licensing, copyright, records management and collaboration.
This project constitutes a work of the United States Government and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 USC § 105. This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication. All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.
The project utilizes code licensed under the terms of the Apache Software License and therefore is licensed under ASL v2 or later.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache Software License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Apache Software License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the Apache Software License along with this program. If not, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
This project contains only non-sensitive, publicly available data and information. All material and community participation is covered by the Surveillance Platform Disclaimer and Code of Conduct. For more information about CDC's privacy policy, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/privacy.html.
Anyone is encouraged to contribute to the project by forking and submitting a pull request. (If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a basic tutorial.) By contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users under the terms of the Apache Software License v2 or later.
All comments, messages, pull requests, and other submissions received through CDC including this GitHub page are subject to the Presidential Records Act and may be archived. Learn more at http://www.cdc.gov/other/privacy.html.
This project is not a source of government records, but is a copy to increase collaboration and collaborative potential. All government records will be published through the CDC web site
Please refer to CDC's Template Repository for more information about contributing to this repository, public domain notices and disclaimers, and code of conduct.
Thanks to 18F's open source policy and code of conduct that were very useful in setting up this GitHub organization. Thanks to CDC's Informatics Innovation Unit that was helpful in modeling the code of conduct.