Ukrainian open source app for citizen's digital documents & government services
Comrades in open source, This popped up on my radar today: https://opensource.diia.gov.ua/en.html It seems like a good initiative, and in general I think that governments have a duty to make source code available whenever possible. I checked the GitHub: https://github.com/diia-open-source/ And it looks like all of the code is under the EUPL, which is a nice copyleft license. However if you look at the main page there is a section titled Open Source Usage License, which takes you here: https://opensource.diia.gov.ua/documents/Public_licence.DOCX This license includes things like: 2.6. This License applies to the territory of all states of the world (except for the territories of states recognized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as aggressor states, states subject to sanctions in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Sanctions", states that are members of customs and military unions with such states). And also: 1.3.5. the Licensee – any person (except for persons of states recognized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as aggressor states, states subject to sanctions in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Sanctions”, states that are members of customs and military unions with such states) who voluntarily uses the Diia mobile application software under a public license; Such provisions would likely prevent the license from being considered free (as in freedom) by folks like the OSI. Honestly I'm not really sure where this second license is meant to apply, since the source code currently is under the EUPL which has no such restrictions. Anyway, I thought it was interesting! Cheers, -- Shane
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Shane Kerr