Hello Henning,
thanks for that. I really like the short message!
Best Regards, Matthias
* Henning Jacobs [2017-09-13 19:40 +0200]:
Public Money, Public Code: Publicly Funded Software Has to Be 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.
"I can't say how much I support this, it is so obviously a good idea" -- https://twitter.com/hanno/status/907904636283224064 I have nothing to add. Sign the open letter! :-)
Many organizations (incl. WikiMedia, CCC, KDE, OSI) signed the open letter, please sign it too: https://publiccode.eu/openletter/
Press coverage (German):
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/public-code-aktivisten-fordern-fr...
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kampagne-Public-Code-Software-fuer-d...
https://netzpolitik.org/2017/kampagne-oeffentliches-geld-oeffentlicher-code/
Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15236686