Public Money, Public Code - A campaign advocating for legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available & open-source
Public Money, Public Code - A campaign advocating for legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available & open-source
Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software
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I wish America had this mindset
There is some movement, but it isn't nearly enough.
We believe that software created by the government should be shared with the public, and we want to collaborate with civic-minded peers to make this happen.
Thanks for sharing I didn't even know this existed.
There's also the NSA's Ghidra which is a competitor for the best open source application IMO. Previously the only tool for heavy-duty reverse engineering was IDA Pro, which is very expensive (and not open source, of course). The NSA has selfish incentives to have tools like this be open source - free training especially - but it's still a very good thing.
I don't know anything about reverse engineering but this seems like fills a void as you mentioned. Thanks for sharing. Is there a fork for Linux?
Ghidra is written in Java which is cross-platform.
Thanks I just read that after editing the post 🤦♂️
Don't feel too bad. A lot of more complicated Java programs utilize JNI with platform-specfic code, so even if you knew it was Java, it's not a given that it works on Linux - especially given the incredibly complicated nature of decompilation, and that Ghidra has a DSL to define processors/"languages".
It works natively on Linux
https://github.com/orgs/GSA/repositories?type=all
Not just open source, public domain. I also see that any pull request submitters must automatically agree to dedicate their work to the public domain for some of the repos I looked at.
That's actually cool! Iceland goes even further, and publishes the code for all their digital government services on GitHub: https://github.com/island-is
I was fascinated when I first saw this
Wow I feel kinda dumb I never even heard of U.S. General Services Administration let alone all the public domain software they've created. My only question is, is any of it useful for a pleb like me or is it public domain for transparencies sake?
Honestly I have no idea, some of it looks like good examples of what bureaucratic software development produces. I personally guarantee that almost all of that software is probably written by contractors 😹