We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74452198

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

 

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

 

Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software

It needs more signatures to make the @EUCommission notice it. Opensource is becoming more important than ever in our efforts to de-USA.

 

Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software.

Becoming more and more important now that we know the US has a kill-switch for military equipment like F-35s which they sold to EU countries.