How will intellectual property used or developed with these grant funds be handled?
Intellectual property developed using RWJF funds will be owned by the grantee (with certain license rights granted to RWJF) but must be made publicly available through open source licensing (in the case of software) or under Creative Commons licensing (in the case of other intellectual property). In developing an overall solution, projects may make use of proprietary products and grantees may use RWJF funds to purchase those products or pay for those services. However, any enhancements to those proprietary products must be paid for out of non-RWJF funds unless they are subsequently released as open source.
