[ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

[Alan Bell]

On 19/11/11 20:33, Chris Rowson wrote:
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I am kind of involved in the process (funny how Ubuntu ended up on the 
list isn't it? . . .)

It is hugely political, and a bit "Yes Minister"ish but yeah there are 
issues with the way we interpret the European legislation here, but that 
is OK. To clarify the "product" thing, my understanding is that they are 
not going to mandate particular licenses, the lawyers advice is that 
they think it might be open to legal challenge if they did a procurement 
and specified they wanted something with a GPLv3 license for example. 
Funnily enough what they can do is specify in a tender stuff that looks 
a lot like the four freedoms as business requirements if they want to.
I was at a meeting at the Home Office on Wednesday, next one is in 
January some time but I expect to have other stuff to say before then 
about the future maintenance of the options list in particular.

Alan.

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