DAdaveloyall·Aug 8, 2016
FSF got their definition into the doc, as a first-class peer of the OSI definition!
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/commit/1d4f...
That's major!
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sources> Overall, GSA is one of the best agencies when it comes to open source. It has definitely come a long way, but still a long way to go.
I think it's never been a better time to get approvals/clarifications/etc for open source at GSA. GSA's CIO posted a supportive comment on this issue here, w/r/t the White House's proposed source code policy (and 18F's comment on it), and reinforced that GSA has an "open source first" internal policy for the enterprise on the books:
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/73#i...
Of course, policies only give people the space to spend energy making the policy really mean something -- which I encourage you to do. Find me on 18F's GitHub or GSA email any time if you have ideas you want to talk about.
In Cloud.govI'd encourage you all to read the draft source code policy (https://sourcecode.cio.gov/) and consider commenting on it or responding to existing comments yourself (due by Monday night at midnight Eastern U.S. time): https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues
This is an unusually direct opportunity to share your expertise to help the entire U.S. federal government do a better job of building software.
In White House Source Code Policy a Big Win for Open GovernmentFederal source code policy: Require exceptions to be publicly disclosed
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