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April 4, 2016 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Broudebuu34/us-govt-commits-to-publish-publicly-financed-software-under-foss
US Govt Commits To Publish Publicly Financed Software Under FOSS
An anonymous reader writes: The White House has published a draft (PDF) for a Source Code Policy. The policy requires every public agency to publish their custom-build software as Free Software for other public agencies as well as the general public to use, study, share and improve the software. The Source Code Policy is intended for efficient use of US taxpayers' money and reuse of existing custom-made software across the public sector. It is said to reduce vendor lock-in of the public sector, and decrease duplicate costs for the same code which in return will increase transparency of public agencies. The custom-build software will also be published to the general public either as public domain, or as Free Software so others can improve and reuse the software. Looking at the exceptions, it appears the list excludes a number of interesting things. But what's remarkable here is that, by default, publicly financed software will now be deemed as open-source. That's a win.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Broudebuu34/us-govt-commits-to-publish-publicly-financed-software-under-foss
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