US government draft to publish publicly financed software under Free Software licenses

[Matthias Kirschner]

* François Revol <revol at free.fr> [2016-03-16 15:34:10 +0100]:

> 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-codes-sources-sont-des-documents-administratif
> (sorry no translation yet)

Thank you for that information!

> 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-calculateur-d-impots-1er-avril.htm

Best Regards,
Matthias

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