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posted by mrpg on Sunday June 03 2018, @05:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-happened-to-free-software? dept.

New policy pushes for open source in California agencies

[...] The California Department of Technology released a letter this week announcing a new policy — called the Open Source and Code Reuse Policy — elevating the use of open source software across state government. Agencies and state entities are asked to develop, purchase or reuse open source software — anything with source code that is publicly available to view, adapt, or reuse — for new IT projects as a first option where it is financially viable. (There are a few exceptions, such as cases that would threaten national or state security.)

The policy is also applied retroactively to existing state-built software, requiring agencies to make such code "broadly available for reuse across state government in a consistent manner." The policy notes that reusing custom-developed code across state agencies "can have significant benefits for taxpayers, including decreasing duplicative costs" and is intended to "promote innovation and collaboration across state government."

Non-open-source software will still be permitted — an official from the California Department of Technology assured StateScoop that the state wants to keep the door open for its vendor partners, but emphasized that open source has value that warrants strong consideration by agencies.


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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday June 03 2018, @10:13PM (1 child)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:53AM (#688196)

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