FSFE: Public Money? Public Code!

The Free Software Foundation Europe has joined severalorganizations in publishing an open letter urging lawmakersto advance legislation requiring publicly financed software developed forthe public sector be made available under a Free and Open Source Softwarelicense. "The initial signatories include CCC, EDRi, Free SoftwareFoundation Europe, KDE, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, openSUSE, OpenSource Business Alliance, Open Source Initiative, The Document Foundation,Wikimedia Deutschland, as well as several others; they ask individuals andother organisation to sign the open letter. The open letter will be sent to candidates for the German Parliament election and, during the coming months, until the 2019 EU parliament elections, to other representatives of the EU and EU member states."