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Public Money? Public Code!

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Published: 22 Sept 2017 › Updated: 22 Sept 2017Public Money? Public Code!

Public Money? Public Code!

The following video explaines, why publicly financed software must be free and open source:

Why is software that is programmed with taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for public sector must 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 all people should be available to all people!

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This is a campaign by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 Licence.

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