Developer Licenses
Obtaining a Developer License for Echidna is easy and normally takes less than 24 hours. Developers of software that uses Echidna to quickly lookup, validate or translate codes, or to expand or validate ValueSets can get a discounted license for Echidna. You can choose one of two options: a Free Standard License, or a Premium License discounted to the price of a Standard License. To request a Developer License contact Echidna Sales with details of your project. Provide the name of your software, a link to its website and the number of developer licenses you require. We will respond with a unique discount code that you can use to purchase Premium or Enterprise licenses.
All developer licenses have to be renewed annually, but don’t worry. We will send you three reminders staring one month before the license expires.
Open Source Projects
To show are appreciation of the work you do for the community, we offer you free Developer Licenses. To qualify, you need:
- an open source repository on a reputed site such as GitHub or BitBucket,
- have significant recent activity,
- include the "Powered by ECHIDNA.FHIR.ORG" badge in your project's
README.mdfile (see snippet below), and - to email us the link to the repository.
Qualifying projects can receive up to 3 free Developer Licenses for developers listed on the repo.
Attribution Snippet
Copy and paste this markdown into your README.md file:
[](https://echidna.fhir.org)
Startups
We get it, startups don’t have piles of cash to throw around yet because we were a startup once too. To qualify a startup company needs:
- to be pre-Series B,
- have less than USD $2,000,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR), and
- to email us the name and website of your company, the year it was founded, the number of total employees in the company and the current stage of the startup (pre-seed, seed or Series A)