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France launched a similar program and publish everything they can on Github

I find it really funny that it's published on GitHub with the MIT license, but with a disclaimer it's illegal to use it outside of government websites.

It's great that it's publicly available, like many other public stuff the French Government is doing like https://beta.gouv.fr/ or the tax calculators, but it's still funny.

That seems unenforcable under a MIT license? Especially outside of France.

Governments can write laws to do whatever they like... And they have police to enforce stuff however they like.

How can French police enforce things outside of France?

Extradition, cooperation with other EU nations...

Or they just blow up your boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

The same way anyone enforces things outside of their borders, through force.

The conditions in the disclaimer only apply to the French government. Translated with Firefox (which apparently still makes some typos):

> Conditions for the use of the Components by the Other Users

> All Other Users are allowed to use the source code according to the terms of the MIT license.

> Other Users are expressly reminded that any use of the Components outside the limits referred to herein or for the purpose of diverting them and otherwise appropriateing the State Mark is punishable by civil and/or criminal sanctions.

> Prohibited Use Outside Government Websites

It explicitly states it's forbidden to be used by private actors.

Oh, right, on the readme! That's so weird, because it kinda contradicts the "general conditions for use" document. I guess they mean the source code is ok to use but you must alter the design first? The UK's doesn't have such a dumb limitation.

Makes sense to me: MIT doesn't give a trademark / design mark license.

Thanks so much for this! I’m the design system lead and this has made the team very happy.

> Wish there would be more like this from other governments.

There is:

Argentina - https://argob.github.io/poncho/

Australia - https://gold.designsystemau.org/

Canada - https://design.gccollab.ca/

Czech Republic - https://designsystem.gov.cz/#/

Estonia - https://brand.estonia.ee/?lang=en

Flanders - https://www.vlaanderen.be/digitaal-vlaanderen/onze-oplossing...

France - https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/

Germany - https://styleguide.bundesregierung.de/sg-de/

Greece - https://guide.services.gov.gr/

Italy - https://developers.italia.it/en/designers/

Netherlands - https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/achtergrondartikelen/het-nl-...

New Zealand - https://www.digital.govt.nz/standards-and-guidance/design-an...

Singapore - https://www.designsystem.tech.gov.sg/

Switserland - https://swiss.github.io/styleguide/en/

United States - https://designsystem.digital.gov/

Ukraine - https://diia-en.fedoriv.com/

Fedoriv work for Ukraine is unmatched!

Thank you for this, but I guess it's out of date, for Canada at least it's now https://articles.alpha.canada.ca/forms-formulaires/

It went from DIY open source to something more like the UK's model; in fact Canada is running with a number of UK-origin projects & ideas, like Notify, which is of course a good thing, we should all learn from each other's best practices and innovations.