This repository contains a DRAFT Open Source Policy for the NPMap team, which is part of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). This document is a work-in-progress, and has not been officially approved at this point.
Read NPMap's open source policy.
For members of the NPMap team, we have guidance on how NPMap puts this policy into practice and how we handle the narrow situations where we may delay or withhold the release of source code.
NPMap's open source team practices.
This policy was originally forked from 18F's policy, which was, in turn, forked from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's policy. Thanks also to @benbalter for his insights regarding CFPB's initial policy.
This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:
This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.
All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.