[Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy

[greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett (freephile))]

The US Fed. Govt. is proposing a pilot program to release at least 20% of
newly developed custom code as 'OSS'.  https://sourcecode.cio.gov/  They're
accepting comments now.  And since it's hosted on GitHub, you "comment" via
the issue queue, and you can also fork the project and issue a pull request.

I forked it and created a pull request.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/pulls proposing to use the
term 'Free Software' in place of 'Open Source'

If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work,
it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have greater
access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into
proprietary works.

What do you think?


Greg Rundlett
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