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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.world)
submitted 4 months ago by tek@calckey.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there EU-wide law about it?

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Switzerland isn't in the EU

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is however in the schengen area. so regulatory alignment on a lot of issues is still required as if they were members

[–] kombos@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

Not really, Schengen is for travel purposes mostly. Switzerland applies many EU regulations but that's "voluntary".

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Ah. Right. It's easy to forget it.