<P> DFARS 227.7103 - 4 License rights (Non-commercial items) provides the standard license rights that a licensor grants to the Government are (1) unlimited rights, (2) Government purpose rights, or (3) limited rights . Those rights are defined in the clause at 252.227 - 7013, Rights in Technical Data--Noncommercial Items . </P> <P> Technical information developed exclusively with Government funds may be used by the Government without restriction including going to another contractor to produce the item in question . </P> <P> A second technical data rights scenario occurs when items / technical data is acquired using mixed funding--the Government gets Government purpose rights which allow the Government to go with another vendor provided a non disclosure agreement is signed with that other vendor and any tech data / drawings produced under that other contract are marked in accordance with the DFARS 252.227. 7013 clause . </P> <P> If the technical data was developed exclusively at private expense, the Government has limited rights . That means the rights to use, modify, and disclose the data within the Government . But it generally may not, without permission, release the data outside of the Government . DFARS 252.227 - 7013 . </P>

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