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Really wish this was a EU-wide directive. Code produced with the public's money really should at the very least be public, but even better with a permissive license.

FOSS is already in the blood of Europeans, now we just need the legislators to realize this is a good thing, and foster the ecosystem even more!

Why only code?

Anything funded with public money should have same proportion going back to the public (the organization running the area which funded it).

For example: a 100% EU money funded innovation should be free for everyone to use within EU and outsiders should license a patent.

50% public funding from state of Norway, then state of Norway has 50% ownership.

And so on.

I guess software is a good enough start.

I wonder there is not already such a petition in the EU or Germany. I searched, but didn't find any. Somebody who wants to create one? I'm not that good in writing such texts:

Europe: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/de/home

Germany: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/epet/startseite.nc.html

> Germany

Ongoing discussion:

Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle (heise.de)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198171

Was going to mention the same. I do feel like there is some connection there.

The new digital minister seems to be doing well. He used to be CEO of an electronics retailer with mixed to negative reputation in nerd circles, but he also has a physics degree and has software experience in the trenches, so I wasn't sure what to think of him.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Hopefully it won't just remain at the announcement stage.

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