* Fernando Reis [2017-12-11 21:15 +0100]:
I would go even further and say that code development funded by public
money should be made free software, regardless if it is to be used by
the public sector or not.
Isn't that what we ask for on https://publiccode.eu ?
Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free
Software?
We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software
developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a
Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it
should be public code as well.
That starts already to be the case with research funded via the
Horizon 2020 research fund.
Yes, absolutely. Please have a look at
https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01.en.html and the referenced
paper, where we ask for that.
Regards,
Matthias
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