Free Software Foundation Europe Leads Call For Taxpayer-Funded Software To Be Licensed For Free Re-use | Techdirt

"Considered objectively, it's hard to think of any good reasons why code that is paid for by the public should not be released publicly as a matter of course. The good news is that this "public money, public code" argument is precisely the approach that open access advocates have used with considerable success in the field of academic publishing, so there's hope it might gain some traction in the world of software too."