У нас, я понимаю, такого и близко нет?
Begin forwarded message: > From: Free Software Foundation Europe <[email protected]> > Date: September 13, 2017 at 12:18:47 PM GMT+3 > To: Viktar Siarheichyk <[email protected]> > Subject: Public Money? Public Code! - Sign our Open Letter! > > Dear Viktar Siarheichyk, > > digital services offered and used by our public administrations are part > of the critical infrastructure of 21st century democratic nations. Due > to restrictive software licences, however, many public bodies do not > have full control over its digital infrastructure. And although sharing > publicly funded software under a free licence generates great benefits > for governments and civil society, policy makers are still reluctant to > improve legislation. It is time to change this. Since it is our public > money, it should be our public code as well! > > Today the Free Software Foundation Europe publishes an open letter in > which we call for legislation requiring that publicly financed software > developed for the public sector must be made publicly available under a > Free Software licence. This will allow everybody to use, study, share, > and improve the software. 31 civil society organisations throughout the > EU have already signed it. Also Edward Snowden, President of Freedom of > the Press Foundation, supports our campaign, stating "Right now, the > blueprints for much of our most critical public infrastructure are > simply unavailable to the public. By aligning public funding with a Free > Software requirement -- "Free" referring to public code availability, > not cost -- we can find and fix flaws before they are used to turn the > lights out in the next hospital." > > Now it is up to you! Please help and join us by signing this letter and > ask your friends and colleagues to do likewise: > > * Sign the open letter: https://publiccode.eu/#action > > Why is this important? Public institutions spend millions of euros every > year for the development of new software for them. But the public > sector's procurement choices play a significant role in determining > which companies are allowed to compete and what software is supported > with taxpayers' money. This means, that changing policies in public > procurement will have a huge positive impact on the Free Software > community. > > Great chances for improvement and synergies are missed when proprietary > licences restrict our freedom to use, study, share and improve publicly > funded software. Nowadays, we often have the absurd situation that > public administrations on federal or local level have problems to share > code with each other - even if they funded its complete development on > their own. Without the option to run audits or other security checks on > the code, sensible citizen data may be at risk. > > * That's why you should sign the letter: https://publiccode.eu/#action > > Experience from many projects all over the world show that Free Software > and public administration can be a perfect match. Some EU member states > have taken initial legislative steps for supporting Free Software in > public administrations. With this campaign we reach out to those still > hesitating. Please help us, to make Free Software the new gold standard > in public procurement. > > Sincerely, > Matthias Kirschner, President Free Software Foundation Europe > > PS: You can support this campaign as well by ordering and distributing > stickers <https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html#pmpc-sticker>, > by sharing the campaign video <https://publiccode.eu/#about> and by > using one of our web graphics or banners > <https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/>. > >
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