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
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 😹
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 😹