Research on Licensing and Ethical Principals & Practices we follow on fAIR

[kshitijrajsharma]

• Plan is to have a license ready for both fAIr github and Imagery we use , and other relevant topic of discussion
• Do research on the what principals should we follow .

So How fAIr uses its data that needs licensing ?

• fAIr stores tile images on local disk (offline) Uses them to train models , publishes them so that user can download input as well as output , So any imagery fAIr uses should have licensing to allow offline saving of tiles and resharing them
• BaseModel that are to be used in fAIr should also have opensource license that they can be reused , shared and modified along with the training data and algorithm that is used to create that model should be open and publicly shared
• Vector data used in fAIr are coming from OSM and will go Back to OSM , fAIr has no intention to redistribute /store data produced or used in process in other proposes rather than OpenStreetMap & Open Source

What currently fAIr uses ?

• fAIr uses Ramp as Basemodel and Choice of selection is result of Research performed by 50 AI engineers at Omdeena , But not limited to : Open to further research and add other basemodel options if it fits our licensing and usecases
• fAIr can use Imagery shared through Open Aerial Map but not limited to : Open to any TMS layer as long as it fits the same licensing as open aerial map

So what are the current licenses and ethics that we can reference to ?

There are three things that needs to be clearly stated in terms of licensing and usecases

• GITHUB Repo ( Github and libraries that fAIr is using should have stated licensing they use )
  fAIr works on modular approach , it has following important libraries and utilities

1. fair-utlities
2. ramp-fAIr fork of ramp-base-code
3. geojson2osm
4. oauth2
5. Raw-Data-API
   & Obviously Main repo that contains frontend and backend code , Our Main Library should mention license
   Currently most of HOT Repo follow GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

- Imagery License

This needs to be clearly stated in fAIr frontend

We can reference to License that OAM uses

Ethics :

• We can reference to Ramp and Microsoft AI ethics for research and develop and work on them
  Ramp :
  
  Microsoft :
  
  Further to be added , Let us know if you know useful links that we can go through during research

In terms of creditability and explainable fAIr follows community approach that Tasking Manager Follows