The D.C.’s transit tech community’s good relations with WMATA could be in hot water because of a recent open data move from the transit authority.

WMATA recently revised its developer liscence agreement which lays out the terms of service users agree to when using the transit agency’s data. Local developers are telling us that the terms in the new agreement will restrict their ability to develop applications and their own APIs.

The transit agency revised the terms of service on October 12 with the changes effective immediately. The founder of MetroHero and one of WMATA’s biggest API users, James Pizzurro, told us he believes the changes are specifically targeting MetroHero.

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