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Resource, NOF Could someone please issue a clear statement in the guidelines regarding the Copyright ownership of bespoke software, custom databases and schemas developed for NOF-digi projects. I am not alone in interpreting that all systems development Copyright and IPR will be owned by NOF projects; see recent threads. However recent MCG meeting discussions suggest otherwise. Specifically 1; Should all Resource funded systems be in the public domain / open source? (there are moral and commercial answers to this of course) 2; 'off the shelf' packages are rarely a perfect fit: should changes to them be in the public domain? 3; would 1 and / or 2 be likely to severely restrict the number of commercial vendors bidding for NOF-digi projects? 4; Do Copyright / IPR guidelines therefore _only_ apply to digitised content and not the delivery systems? thank you James Grimster Orangeleaf Systems Ltd