Legislators have drafted a bill [PDF in Russian] that will boost Free Software on multiple levels within the Russian Federation's public sector.
The draft, approved by the Russian Federation's Duma (lower chamber) in mid-October, requires the public sector to prioritise Free Software over proprietary alternatives, gives precedence to local IT businesses that offer Free Software for public tenders, and recognises the need to encourage collaboration with the global network of Free Software organisations and communities.
[...] Another interesting aspect of the law is how the authors of the bill have made an extra effort to ensure the language used in the draft are correct. For one, only software carrying licenses that allow the four freedoms may be legally labelled as "Free Software":
Source: Free Software Foundation Europe
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:20PM
Let us know when Putin actually passes it and it doesn't get mutated from "free software a public priority" to "russian government mandated software a public priority" somewhere in the middle, keeping its original title, of course.