I was under the impression that code written by the government was public domain. You and I (and private companies) paid the taxes that generated that code, so releasing it in anything less than a public domain is doing a disservice. Back when I worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs there were companies that took the VA code, modified it for non-VA hospitals, and offered to provide the software and support for a fee. I didn't find a problem with it then, nor do I now. That's what public domain means. -Mark -------- Original message --------From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <g...@freephile.com> Date: 3/25/16 3:33 PM (GMT-05:00) To: blu <disc...@blu.org>, GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> Subject: Govt Source Code Policy The US Fed. Govt. is proposing a pilot program to release at least 20% of newly developed custom code as 'OSS'. https://sourcecode.cio.gov/ They're accepting comments now. And since it's hosted on GitHub, you "comment" via the issue queue, and you can also fork the project and issue a pull request.
I forked it and created a pull request. https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/pulls proposing to use the term 'Free Software' in place of 'Open Source' If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work, it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have greater access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into proprietary works. What do you think? Greg Rundletthttps://eQuality-Tech.comhttps://freephile.org
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