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CENDI provides some info on copyright as it applies to the US Government http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html
The IT Sector of the US Federal Government is $82 Billion in FY 2015 https://www.itdashboard.gov/drupal/
So what are "We The People" getting for our money? Specifically, what are these expenditures producing in terms of technology freedom? Very little. Almost nothing. But we can work for change.
The White House is considering an "open source" initiative to publish more code under an open license. I'm proposing an even better option: Free Software by default.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/pull/78
== Some developer and/or public resources ==
# https://www.data.gov/labs/
# https://www.itdashboard.gov/
# https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/Default.aspx
== Free software available now ==