On 16/03/2016 14:41, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
At the end of last week, the White House published a draft for a Source Code Policy https://sourcecode.cio.gov/SourceCodePolicy.pdf. 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. As we want to push for similar policies in the EU, I would be very interested in your feedback.
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The policy in general does not require that already existing custom—developed software be retroactively made available as Free Software if it was developed by third party developers (though it is strongly encouraged to the extent permissible under existing contracts). However, it is encouraged to be retroactively applicable for the existing custom-build software developed by agency employees in the course of their official duties.
Nice, that echoes the recent french CADA decision that recognizes software source code as a "publicly discloseable document", that just was validated by an administrative court:
http://www.april.org/le-tribunal-administratif-valide-lavis-de-la-cada-les-c... (sorry no translation yet)
On the 1st of April (no, that's not a joke), the tax administration will release the source code of the tax calculation software they wrote, and even organize a hackathon around it.
http://www.nextinpact.com/news/98981-le-fisc-ouvrira-code-source-son-calcula...
François.