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This is Matthias Kirschner's private blog. In my day job, I am the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). I have been involved in Free Software since the late 90ies , so many of the posts here are about Free Software (also called Open Source Software) . Recently, in my spare time, I have written the…

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US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses

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At the end of last week, the White House published a draft for a Source Code Policy (Update: the draft is not online anymore, link changed to final version). The policy requires every public agency to publish their custom-build software as Free Software for other public agencies as well as the ge...