Governments developing free software

Status: experimental

This page is a collection of governments that develop software and publish it as free software.

The page is new and the scope isn't yet completely clear. The general plan is to take a restrictive view of "government", such that "government bodies" would be excluded.

This may change as the page gathers examples ...we'll see how practical and useful the distinction is or isn't.

The point is to gather examples that can be used when others are asking their government to release software as free software.

UK

• https://github.com/opengovernment

USA

The White House wrote a petition module for Drupal and published it under GPLv2 in August 2012:

• https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition
  • http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/08/23/open-sourcing-we-the-people
  • http://h-online.com/-1674393