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This change will enable public services, companies, start-ups as well as citizens to use and further develop Commission software, facilitating also the sharing of knowledge and expertise.
With new rules in place, some actions will be facilitated an improved such as:
The decision follows the Commission’s Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023. It is driven by DG Informatics (DIGIT) Under the theme ‘’Think Open’’ and sets out a vision for encouraging and leveraging the transformative, innovative and collaborative power of open source, its principles and development practices. The Strategy contributes to the goals of the overarching Digital Strategy of the Commission and the Digital Europe programme.
In a near future the Commission will also make its software available as open source in one single repository to facilitate access and reuse as another step forward towards thinking open.
Read the full press release here.
Find here the decision on new rules for Open Source Software distribution