> > > I can also understand a general unwillingness to disconnect software > from the license under which it is made available; I don't see what's > gained from splitting them. Why would you wish to be able to ban > non-Open source products from tendering? > > > You wouldn't want to ban non-open source products from tendering. Tenders are usually assessed on a weighted point basis however, and as we have discussed, some of the features of an open-source licence make that kind of licence more desirable that a proprietary licence. I just wondered whether or not declaring open-source as a product would make it difficult to assign a desirable weighting to an open-source licence in the tender process? Reading around the documentation however it seems that the Cabinet Office is keen for UK.gov to adopt open-source over proprietary products when there is no other difference.
Chris
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