Municipalities using and contributing to open source are balancing their financial, legal, and social responsibilities, concludes Denmark’s OS2
Denmark’s community of public services that are pooling their efforts in the development of open source tools - that's novel concept versus each paying annually to use a different proprietary product!
The note for example explains how Danish and European procurement rules allow a municipality to specify that software solutions offered must be available under an open source licence. “An open source requirement promotes open competition, which is the purpose of the procurement rules,” the lawyers write.
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Another sections deals with software that has been developed specifically for a municipality, which now wants to make it available as open source. Here, the legal experts point out that this is in the municipality’s own interests as well as that of its citizens.
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Municipalities using and contributing to open source are balancing their financial, legal, and social responsibilities, concludes a legal note written for OS2, Denmark’s community of public services that are pooling their efforts in the development of open source tools.
source https://gadgeteer.co.za/municipalities-using-and-contributing-open-source-are-balancing-their-financial-legal-and-social
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