Access Policy
The terms are simple: public dashboards stay free to use and audit; programmatic access (API + exports) runs through signup so we can keep it reliable; and commercial reuse of our platform is licensed rather than open by default. The underlying records are public — those belong to everyone, and you can re-pull them from OMMU anytime.
Free public access
Public site pages, dashboards, public methodology notes, and published source summaries are free to browse. Free non-commercial/fair-use access is permitted for research, journalism, advocacy, education, and public-interest analysis with attribution to DevCannabis and original regulatory sources where practical.
API and export access
API access, data export, and automated programmatic use require request, approval, signup, authentication, and either an issued API key or contributor login. Issued keys are scoped to approved fair-use terms, rate-limited, usage-logged, and can be disabled or revoked. Bulk, commercial, resale, republication, and model-training use require separate written permission.
Uses requiring written permission
- Bulk export, bulk scraping, automated extraction, or bypassing reasonable access limits.
- Commercial use, resale, republication, syndication, or embedding DevCannabis as a paid data backend.
- Model training, enrichment pipelines, or derivative datasets based on DevCannabis outputs.
- Reselling or re-hosting the DevCannabis platform, brand, or our normalized dataset as a commercial product. (Building your own tool from the original public records is always fair game.)
Contributor/source access
Developer and source access is request-based and approval-based. Approved contributors may work on adapters, pipelines, tests, dashboards, API improvements, moderation workflows, and source review under project terms.
The platform, not the records
Public visibility and contributor workflows don't grant rights to copy, operate, or commercialize the DevCannabis platform — the code, brand, and curated/normalized presentation are our own work. This is about the product, not the data: the underlying OMMU records are public and free for anyone to use.
Trust and attribution
Cite DevCannabis and original regulatory sources where practical. Corrections should include source URL, date fetched or observed, last verified date if known, confidence level, reviewer notes, and a challenge/correction link.
Jurisdiction model
Florida is the first live adapter, not a hard platform assumption. New jurisdictions should plug into the shared adapter model while preserving source provenance, review status, and state-specific caveats.