License and release policy

One of the key goals of TraitFest is to facilitate collaboration on and engagement with the digital products created and developed at the event, both among the participants and for members of the community at-large. TraitFest is also supported by NSF grants (see footer) with an associated Data Management Plan (DMP), and all products from the event need to comply with the DMP and funder mandates. Therefore, the following policy holds for all material developed and created at the event.

1. All digital products (code, data, documentation, tutorials, etc) developed at the event are to be released such that it is accessible to the public, at the latest at the conclusion of the event, under an Open Content license or terms of use.

2. Code is to be released under an OSI-approved open source license.

3. Data, documents, tutorials, etc are to be released either to the public domain (for example, by applying a CC-Zero waiver), or under terms no more restrictive than requiring attribution (such as CC-BY).

   • Ontologies or ontology fragments (such as terms, term definitions, term annotations, axioms, etc) fall under this category, too.