UK Cabinet Office releases Open Standards Principles
Following on from the earlier standards consultation process, the UK Government has now released open standards principles. I have had a quick flick through and am still coming to terms with them. On the plus side they say all the right things, and they seem to have rejected RAND/FRAND/RANDZ etc licensing requirements in their definition of a standard – “royalty free basis that is compatible with both open source and proprietary licensed solutions. These rights should be irrevocable unless there is a breach of licence conditions.” which is good.
For my views on open standards in Government see the paper I prepared for Linux Australia.
Reblogged this on Parliament of Things and commented:
The thing about parliaments is that they don’t fully understand the commons and how to protect and encourage them. Open standards are a step in this direction.
Reblogged this on Parliament of Things and commented:
A first good step in governments taking a supportive role in protecting the commons is to chair the process of defining open standard.