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Administrations in Spain and Portugal heckled over licence violations
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| The Spanish Police, Spanish Mint and
| Portugal's Agency for Administrative
| Modernisation have been heckled by
| developers of OpenSC, open source software
| for smart cards. The developers found that
| the public administrations use their
| software libraries, but have not made
| available this open source code, one of the
| terms of their licence.
|
| The Portuguese Agency for Administrative
| Modernisation corrected the error last
| week, the open source developers report.
|
| According to one of them, Martin Paljak,
| the Portuguese agency had overlooked the
| emails sent by OpenSC at first. "A few
| weeks ago we tried again, and then they
| replied and began fixing the mistake."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/administrations-in-spain-and-portugal-heckled-over-licence-violations
IT: Bolzano facing protests over licence deal forced by vendor lock-in
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| The decision on Tuesday by the
| administration of the Bolzano region to
| renew the proprietary software licences for
| it's servers, will be challenged by
| Associazione per il Software Libero
| (Assoli), an advocacy group on free and
| open source. The group says the region
| should have investigated alternatives and
| should have issued a call for tender.
|
| The Bolzano administration on 25 May
| decided to spend 2.2 million Euro to renew
| proprietary licences for the next three
| years. In its decision, the administration
| admits it is forced to renew the licence
| contract: "There are no alternatives for
| the development of the IT system. Changing
| these essential and central servers would
| be irresponsible. The administration fails
| the resources and expertise for such a
| change."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/it-bolzano-facing-protests-over-licence-deal-forced-by-vendor-lock-in
Recent:
TR: Ministry of Justice and law courts consider open source desktop
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| Turkey's ministry of Justice, all of its
| institutions and all law courts are
| considering to move or partly move to a
| complete open source desktop, according to
| judge Cengiz Tanrikulu. That migration would
| complete the implementation of an
| information system built on open source
| software, the National Judiciary Informatics
| System (UYAP, Ulusal Yargi AÄi Projesi).
|
| Judge Tanrikulu, involved in the development
| of UYAP, said the government's law offices
| are considering a move to Pardus, a Linux
| distribution primarily developed by Turkey's
| Research Institute of Electronics and
| Cryptology. "We are already using OpenOffice
| on all of the desktops. We began using
| OpenOffice in 2007 and it has helped us to
| save billions."
|
| The judge presented UYAP in Amsterdam in a
| workshop organised by NOiV, the Dutch
| government project on open standards and
| open source, on Wednesday.
|
| Development of UYAP started in 2000 with a
| document management system, built using open
| source components. It offers access to legal
| documents to civil workers at the ministry,
| at law courts, police, prisons, prosecution,
| Home Office and to the Land Registry. The
| system can also be accessed by any mobile
| phone.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/tr-ministry-of-justice-and-law-courts-consider-open-source-desktop
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