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Uppdaterad 2023-06-27, ändringslogg.

Summary | Open source laws, policies and guidelines, open source cataloges and OSPOS in Europe.

Open Source regulations, policies and guidelines

Australia

DTA Digital Service Criteria for making software open

Bulgaria

Bulgaria got a law requiring open source.

Denmark

Action plan for Open Source i Aarhus Kommune

England

UK GDS Operations Open Source Guidelines

UK GDS All About Open Source

UK GDS Guidance - Be Open and Use Open Source

Estonia

New Estonian law requires administration to make state-owned software publicly available

EU-Commission

European Commission's Open Source Strategy

Guidelines for Sustainable Open Source Communities in the Public Sector

Status of Open Source Software Policies in Europe 2020

France

France Contribution Policy

French government to speed up deployment of open source

Italy

Developers Italia Guidelines on the acquisition and reuse of software for public administrations

The law establishing that Public Administrations should preferentially acquire open source software and must publish all developed software in open source, finally is complemented by a set of guidelines that have come into effect.

Canada

British Columbia Policy Framework for GitHub

Canada Open First Whitepaper

Malta

Open Source Software Policy

Switzerland

Swiss Practical guidelines for open source in the federal government (Tyska)

Spain

Free Software Management Guidelines

Netherlands

As part of its Digitization Strategy, the Dutch government launched its new open source toolbox, which includes useful information for civil servants to switch to open source, as well as a communication platform to engage with each other.

South Africa

APC free/libre and open source software policy (APC FLOSS Policy)

Germany

Open source to be the norm in German public procurement

USA

USA 18F Open Source Policy

USA Federal Source Code Policy

others

Open Government Partnership Contribution Policy Template

Standard for Public Code

Presentation of Standard for Public Code

Open source cataloges

Belgium

Denmark

Finland

France

Open Source Catalog

Comptoir du Libre

Italy

Developers Italia open source catalog at the Public Administrations disposal

Canada

Government of Canada Open Resource Exchange

Sweden

offentligkod.se

USA

Code.gov - Sharing America's Code

OSPOS and Business associations

Business associations and think tanks

Finland

COSS - the Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions

France

CNLL - France’s Free Software and Open Digital Enterprise Union

Greece

Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS)

Germany

Open Source Business Alliance

EU Commission Community

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