So the avionics software used by your fighter jets, the navigation software used by your navies, missile systems and your spy satellites should all be Free Software?
What about software produced as part of a contract with a 3rd party - must the 3rd party surrender all intellectual property rights as part of their contract so that the government is able to release the software as Free Software?
These are just a couple of issues that immediately come to mind, I'm sure there are others but overall I agree with the sentiment: software created using taxpayer's money should be released as Free Software unless doing so would be a threat to national security or initiatives. Even with those exceptions it could eventually be made Free Software once an appropriate time has elapsed.
"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"
What about software produced as part of a contract with a 3rd party - must the 3rd party surrender all intellectual property rights as part of their contract so that the government is able to release the software as Free Software?
These are just a couple of issues that immediately come to mind, I'm sure there are others but overall I agree with the sentiment: software created using taxpayer's money should be released as Free Software unless doing so would be a threat to national security or initiatives. Even with those exceptions it could eventually be made Free Software once an appropriate time has elapsed.