What’s the license?
Edit: Ugh, it’s licensed CC0 public domain. Assholes.
IIRC all US government projects HAVE to be CC0 if released to the public. I think the idea is it was created with public money so there shouldn’t be any restrictions on how the public can use it.
That was before copyleft was a thing. Many European governments are now requiring tax funded software to be copyleft.
There are exceptions to that law, such as the USPS. Sounds like we need to contact our legislators to get the law updated
Licensing CC0 is just subsidizing corporations at the expense of tax payers. It should be copyleft because it was funded publicly
I want to think here that this is more about not knowing about licenses than malice.
They did open it.
If open source developers can now keep the tax code updated, you’re all golden
Well that’s a plot twist
