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Re: [News] British Government Embraces Free Software (AGPL) for ConsultationXML

  • Subject: Re: [News] British Government Embraces Free Software (AGPL) for ConsultationXML
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:40:18 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: A poorly-maintained Debian GNU/Linux InterNetNews site
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:744580

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
>
>
> ConsultationXML is now Open Source
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| We’re terribly, fantastically pleased to announce that after a bit of 
>| wrangling, Steph Gray and I are able to release ConsultationXML as open 
>| source software under the GNU Affero license. The recent report on open 
>| source software in Government hinted that departments ought to try to release 
>| source code for the software they commission, and we’re delighted to be (we 
>| think!) the first to do so.     
> `----
>
> http://www.thedextrousweb.com/2009/02/consultationxml-is-now-open-source/
>

A massive well done!

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