Federal Source Code Policy: Achieving Efficiency, Transparency, and Innovation through Reusable and Open Source Software (April 2016)

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Summary:

"This policy also establishes a pilot program that requires agencies, when commissioning new custom software, to release at least 20 percent of new custom-developed code as Open Source Software (OSS) for three years, and collect additional data concerning new custom software to inform metrics to gauge the performance of this pilot...."

Link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20161025014536/https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2016/m_16_21.pdf

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Date tagged:

04/21/2018, 17:41

Date published:

04/21/2018, 13:41