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Public Money, Public Code | EU Public Initiative by FSFE (publiccode.eu)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74452198

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.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

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[-] vas@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Thanks! Also, FOSDEM is a huge bridge to trust building for me. I think that's actually sufficient for me. Will root for this project and support it!

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