On 21/06/2018 14:33, Erik Albers wrote:
Hi all,
currently we are working on a brochure for our Public Money? Public Code!
campaign, that we like to use as a help for politicians and decision-takers.
The brochure shall help to clarify common misunderstandings about Free
Software, show positive use-cases and of course the multiple benefits of using
Free Software. Aim is that the reader gets a broad picture and positive
understanding as well as valid arguments why to prefer using Free Software in
public administrations. Size will be around 16 to 24 pages.
[...]
* Are there more examples in Europe in that - like in Switzerland - national
courts decided in favor of publishing publicly financed software as Free
Software?
In Italy the new Article 69 comma 2 of CAD (Digital Administration Code)
along with the Software Selection and Software Reuse Guidelines (that
has been under public consultation all May, we've participated as Hermes
Center) officially released by Team for Digital Transformation / Agid
(Agency for Digitalization) do require each public agency to:
- Follow strict selection procedures with favor on opensource
- Follow strict selection procedures that require to use "officially in
re-use software"
- Follow strict procedures to contribute to third party opensource
software when making a tender for sw development based on OSS
Guidelines are italian on
http://lg-acquisizione-e-riuso-software-per-la-pa.readthedocs.io/it/latest/
with google translate does a decent translation job.
There's no direct sanctioning systems for violations of those rules, but
watchdogs (like us, italian linux society or others NGOs) can goes to
the "court of accounts" that investigate damages to public accounts in
case there was a public software project that didn't followed those
guidelines causing a loss of money for the public treasury.
I think that a brochure should explicitly underline the French, Swiss
and Italian legal frameworks, i don't know of anyone else, with a list
of claims of virtuous legislation and practices by big European
countries on those topic, because the "by example" approach works very
well with policy makers and managers.
Fabio Pietrosanti
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