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by kseifried 711 days ago
The EMBAG law stipulates that all public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns.

"unless precluded by third-party rights"

Oh. Well then. Nothing to see here.

1 comments

I agree. Every vendor is going to build software by making 90% of it a proprietary library and then 10% a wrapper around that which is useless to everyone. Also literally any application that uses authentication could argue that it’s a security concern to release code