Preliminary Policy Statement on Public Funding and Open Source The Open Bioinformatics Foundation believes that scientific software developed with public support should be distributed under terms analogous to those applied to biological materials.

Available online at http://open-bio.org/pipermail/open-bioinformatics-foundation/2001-October/000001.html

Site URL is: http://open-bio.org/bosc2001 and the pictures from the event are available at http://gallery.open-bio.org/gallery/bosc2001