[ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

[Chris Rowson]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Alan Bell <alan.bell at libertus.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19/11/11 20:33, Chris Rowson wrote:
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>> I did wonder if anyone on the list had responded to the Cabinet Office
>> consultation :-)
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>>  I am kind of involved in the process (funny how Ubuntu ended up on the
> list isn't it? . . .)
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> 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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>
Thanks for clarifying the 'product' thing Alan, that's really useful :-)

Chris
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