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Government procurement of software

Digital 5 group (now D7)

  1. South Korea
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Estonia
  4. New Zealand
  5. Israel
  6. Canada
  7. Uruguay
  • share best practices
  • tradecraft shareable between members

Digital Services Manual includes info on how to interact with the free software community (maybe source for licensing and contract terms)

New Zealand actually recommends the GPL. Typically you see statements like "We use this" but not the "You should use the GPL"

EUPL European Union Public License https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/

code.mil code.gov forge.mil (need CAC) - first major effort to share source code.

California Agile Vendor Pool Mississippi Agile Vendor Pool

French government lists 4 pages of "Free Software" that they recommend.