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The work on
developing the portal has just recently been awarded and is moving
forward. One of the key next steps is
to invite users to discuss their needs.
We recognize that some of the user needs will be based on how the
portal is governed and what rights are assigned to developers for
intellectual property. At this time,
we are just considering the governance and we’ve looked at a number of
licenses and how they have been used by other agencies. For now, we believe that the NASA open
source license is probably one that we will tailor for our purposes – your
review and comment back to us on that license is useful to us; however, we
also believe that one or more licenses may govern the portal based on
different uses of the source code and data sets. This analysis is just starting and, when
available in a couple of months, will be posted for comment.
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