This data is made available before scientific publication with the following understanding:

The data may be freely downloaded, used in analyses, and repackaged in databases.
Users are free to use the data in scientific papers analyzing particular genes and regions if the providers of this data (the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium) are properly acknowledged.
The Centers producing the data reserve the right to publish the initial large-scale analyses of the dataset, including large-scale identification of regions of evolutionary conservation and large-scale genomic assembly. Large-scale refers to regions with size on the order of a chromosome (that is, 30 Mb or more).
This is in accordance with, and with the understandings in the Fort Lauderdale meeting discussing Community Resource Projects and the resulting NHGRI policy statement.
Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice.