Adopters and Supporters

Founding Adopters and Supporters

Founding Adopters

These companies, organizations and institutions committed to the Pledge and licensed their intellectual property on or before April 21, 2020.

Founding Supporters

These companies, organizations and institutions publicly supported the pledge and, in many cases, have dedicated substantial resources and leadership to the founding of the Open COVID Pledge and the Open COVID Coalition. See our full list of supporters.

  • Creative Commons
  • Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
  • Stanford Law School, Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
  • Program in Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law
  • DLA Piper
  • Stanford CCARE
  • Mozilla
  • COMMUNIA Association

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Adopters of OCL Licenses

The Open COVID Coalition publishes template licenses that are compatible with the Open COVID Pledge and can be used by any adopter. For more information on how these licenses compare to the other licenses we support, please visit our compatibility page.

OCL-PC 1.0 (patent and copyright) v1.0

OCL-PC 1.1 (patent and copyright) v1.1

OCL-P 1.1 (patent) 1.1

The following adopters have publicly committed and applied one of these three licenses without modification, under the license indicated.

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Adopters of OCL-Compatible Licenses

The Open COVID Coalition has determined that the following public licenses are compatible with the Open COVID Pledge and the Open COVID Licenses:

Additionally, the Open COVID Coalition has established criteria for custom licenses that are compatible with the Open COVID Pledge and the Open COVID Licenses. 

These adopters have committed to use CC BY, CC0 or a custom license meeting those criteria. For more information on how OCL-Compatible Licenses compare to the other licenses we support, please visit our compatibility page.

The following adopters have publicly committed and applied a OCL-Compatible License.

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Adopters of OCL-Alternative Licenses

These adopters have customized an OCL License, created their own license, or applied an alternative public license, in each case in a manner that is compatible with the Open COVID Pledge but not with the OCL Licenses or the OCL-Compatible Licenses. For more information on how OCL-Allowable Licenses compare to the other licenses we support, please visit our compatibility page.

The Open COVID Coalition has determined that the following public license is compatible with the Open COVID Pledge but not the the Open COVID Licenses and the Open COVID-Compatible Licenses:

The following adopters have publicly committed to and applied an OCL-Alternative License.

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Supporters of the Open COVID Pledge

These organizations and institutions, in addition to the Founding Supporters, have expressed their support publicly for the Open COVID Pledge. For more information about Supporters, please visit our supporter page.