FSFE launches a new campaign today: Public Money? Public Code!

[Fernando Reis]

Thank you for the reference to the position paper, Mathias.
It is in fact broader and goes beyond software to be used by the public sector.
Fernando

> No dia 12/12/2017, às 08:21, Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org> escreveu:
> 
> * Fernando Reis [2017-12-11 21:15 +0100]:
>> I would go even further and say that code development funded by public
>> money should be made free software, regardless if it is to be used by
>> the public sector or not. 
> 
> Isn't that what we ask for on https://publiccode.eu ?
> 
> Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free
> Software?
> 
> We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software
> developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a
> Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it
> should be public code as well.
> 
>> That starts already to be the case with research funded via the
>> Horizon 2020 research fund.
> 
> Yes, absolutely. Please have a look at
> https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01.en.html and the referenced
> paper, where we ask for that.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
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