## 1. Objectives

This policy will accomplish the following objectives:

*   Provide a policy to agencies<sup id="fnr19">[19](#fn19)</sup> on considerations that must be made prior to acquiring any custom-developed code;

*   Require agencies to obtain appropriate Government data rights to custom-developed code, including at a minimum, rights to Government-wide reuse and rights to modify the code. Agencies shall make such custom-developed code broadly available across the Federal Government, subject to limited exceptions;<sup id="fnr20">[20](#fn20)</sup>

*   Require agencies to consider the value of publishing custom code as OSS;

*   Establish requirements for releasing custom-developed source code, including securing the rights necessary to make some custom-developed code releasable to the public as OSS under this policy’s new pilot program; and

*   Provide instructions and resources to facilitate implementation of this policy.

#### Footnotes

*   <sup id="fn19">19</sup>For the purposes of this policy, an agency is one that meets the definition of executive agency under the Clinger Cohen Act of 1996\. _See_ Appendix A.[↩](#fnr19)
*   <sup id="fn20">20</sup>_See_ Section 6 of this policy for additional information about limited exceptions.[↩](#fnr20)