• What about use of a Creative Commons license? 
  • Wendy: More for text-based resources.  Doesn’t have the necessary disclaimers.
• Notion of authorship/getting credit.  Should this be in the license?  Or keep attribution separate from the license?
  • License should stipulate that user must acknowledge the author as well as the provider >> Action item for updating the model agreement
• Security concerns about use of OSS?
• Use of OSS to stimulate community engagement? How?
• Important for program staff to think carefully up front about the goals for software distribution when writing the contract. 
• Postdocs are not gov’t employees.  What sort of agreement should they use?  ERTA, T-42, Visiting Fellow (trainees)
  • Need to look at these agreements and determine what is required/allowable.  Consider an FAQ specific to postdocs.
• 18F – gov’t organization dealing with these issues.  Consider engaging with them on this topic.
• Need to tighten collaboration with the tech transfer office

Next step goal: NIH bioinformatics interest group