▲ 292 ▼ IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It (gizmodo.com) submitted 1 year ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/opensource@lemmy.ml 10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (2 children) Ugh, it's licensed CC0 public domain. Assholes. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/LICENSE permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Glaedr304@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) Can you walk me through why you think this is bad? Doing a quick search for the license didnt make it apparent to me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago* It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes. What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements. Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Glaedr304@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) Can you walk me through why you think this is bad? Doing a quick search for the license didnt make it apparent to me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago* It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes. What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements. Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago* It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes. What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements. Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not. permalink fedilink source parent