Dear all
I have just received an overview of the Free Software situation in Poland from a lawyer called Krzysztof Siewicz. He included some notes on open standards that may (or may not) be useful in the Certified Open context. Please find them below.
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Open standards
The Polish government, partly because of the European Interoperability Framework, partly because of the local lobbying, has recently noticed the notion of open standards. Although there is no clear legal definition of open standards in Polish law and no enforceable obligation to use them in egovernment, there is hope that things may change for the better.
Polish authorities are currently debating the draft Polish Interoperability Framework, and recently they adopted "Polish Informatization Plan" that vaguely referred to open standards but as far as I recall did not mention software freedoms or even the importance to access source codes. However, there was a reference to "open systems architecture" that should be supported in designing egovernment software.
A "Coalition for Open Standards" (KROS) has been set up (http://standardy.org) by ISOC-PL, Novell, and various other actors. A lawyer involved in this initiative is Piotr Waglowski, who is also an active member of ISOC-PL and runs a web site devoted to law and the Internet (similar to groklaw) at: http://prawo.vagla.pl.