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Jan and Jerome, -
Point
taken. I also got some pieces of wisdom from emails of Richard Stallman and Paolo
Falcone. Thanks. -
Currently,
HB 5769’s section 8 is written as follows: SECTION 8. Right to Derivatives and the Control and Modification of Software
– Government shall obtain full rights and control over
derivatives, modifications and customizations done by government on software
that it uses and adopts, provided that government does not use said modified
software nor its derivatives for commercial purposes. - Code written and modified by government
which will be released for public should be open source. Hence, we will
rephrase section 8 to read as follows: SECTION 8. Right to Derivatives and the Control and Modification of Software
– Government shall obtain rights and control over
derivatives, modifications and customizations done by government on non-FOSS
that it uses and adopts, provided that government does not use said modified
software nor its derivatives for commercial purposes. - we can then add a new provision which may not necessarily follow
the exact letter as I wrote here but in spirit shall be the same as: SECTION <N>. Open Standards Government
Communications – All government communications, transactions and
infrastructure for ICT goods and services primarily created for the same, shall
be done in format or specifications that adheres to open standards (FYI: as
defined in the bill, open standards are “free/non-RAND open standards) and
protocols. SECTION
<O>. Adoption of FOSS policy in Government Research and Development –
All government programs must adhere to open standards and
must execute, run or compile in FOSS platforms. All software developed by
government must be FOSS except in exigent circumstances where national security
may be in peril, or in such other cases where the right to freedom to public
information are reasonably controlled as provided for by law. In case of exigent
circumstances, government shall release as FOSS or for public consumption said software,
system and ICT goods and services when it is to be retired or replaced. -As a rejoinder, please understand that
the bill was already filed. However, we are really planning to introduce some amendments
during deliberations and the Technical Working Group discussions on the bill. Maybe
an officer or two of PLUG and Free Software Alliance can join in on discussions
in Congress as resource persons? Kaloi will make the necessary arrangements for
that. Thanks, ~Jeff PS: Maybe PLUG can organize a public discussion
and we’ll ask Rep. Teddy Casiño to tag along so he’ll hear
your recommendations first hand? He’ll be happy to see all of you (and so
would Kaloi and me) __________________ jeff,
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