Hi all,
convincing decision-makers why more public code would benefit us all should be easy. There are so many good arguments for putting publicly funded code under a Free Software licence: Tax savings, transparency, and innovation – just to name a few. But, in practice, we experienced that there are still a lot of basics that need to be explained. Starting with: What is Free Software?
To help with this and in preparation for the upcoming elections of the EU parliament, we compiled a policy brochure that presents the most important facts and arguments about publicly funded code. Today, we publish it [1] under a Creative Commons licence so that you and everyone else are free to use it as support for convincing candidates.
Read more information about the brochure and order yourself a copy here:
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/brochure.html
Thanks and best regards, Erik
[1] https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190124-01