Copyright of software, documentation, design
materials, manuals, user interface and source code must be released
under an OSI-approved open source licence, unless the bid
explicitly argues why this should not be the case and proposes an
alternative licence.
Software must in any case be licensed and
publicly available, for any use and at no financial cost, throughout
UK higher and further education
The open source licence most
appropriate in any given circumstances will depend on the mechanism
chosen for exploitation and/or on-going development.