* 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