[HLUG] Epetitions site on number10.gov.uk uses open source shocker !!

Julian Robbins joolsr at fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 22 09:26:44 BST 2008


Hi

Something that surprised me, and i'm surprised hasnt been more widely
mentioned/blogged is that the number10.gov.uk site ie the site where you
can petition the govt on anything actually uses open source ! 

ie http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11051.asp

'Open source

It's worth reminding users that the code used by mySociety to build this
site for us is open source, so other organisations can build a similar
site, under the Affero GPL software license. You can download the source
code and help develop it. You're welcome to use it in your own projects,
although you must also make the source code available to any other such
projects.'


So, they do use OSS then !!

Julian



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