Re: HealthCare Fraud Product

[terryk01]

Hi,

I am from a company that is reviewing options for tooling to conduct healthcare fraud investigations - this would be a commercial activity.

I would like to know the following:

1. Can we fork your repo(s) and make improvements to the code base? these may not merged back to the main branch? - we may host in Azure Cloud for example.
2. Are there any license restrictions on the usage of the product?
3. Would we get support from the community if we are not journalists but more financial fraud investigators?

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

Terry Kelly.

[stchris]

Hi Terry,

thanks for your interest in Aleph!

Can we fork your repo(s) and make improvements to the code base? these may not merged back to the main branch? - we may host in Azure Cloud for example.

Aleph and its related software projects are mostly MIT licensed, with the exception of https://github.com/alephdata/ingest-file/ which has a AGPL-3.0 license. You are free to fork and make changes to these projects, but in order for us to merge them back in it would be helpful to have a discussion beforehand. Generally we are happy to merge community contributions of all kinds.

Are there any license restrictions on the usage of the product?

Nothing that you can't see from the respective LICENSE files in the respective repositories.

Would we get support from the community if we are not journalists but more financial fraud investigators?

While Aleph is generally made with investigative journalism in mind we do have an open forum at https://aleph.discourse.group/ which you are welcome to join. We provide support on a best effort basis, but the community is quite active when it comes to solving Aleph-related problems.

I hope this helps! See you on the forums!