Last update: 12/11/2020
Belgium forked its COVID-19 app
By basing Coronalert on the German Corona Warn App, Belgium achieved reduced costs, development time and gained transparency. Earlier this week, an article on the OSOR reported on COVID-19 tracing apps and reusable source code. The article shines a light on the potential of Open Source software licenses, as it gives governments the ability to start with an already existing COVID-19 tracing app by making a fork (a separate copy). Benefits The benefits are clear. The development team doesn’t need to start from scratch and in some cases it might be enough to just adapt the code minimally and thus...
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