[Freegis-list] Government Open Code Collaborative in USA

[Roger Longhorn]

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I'll be monitoring this regularly over the coming months to see if any 
GI-related public domain software appears. Just for interest sake, if 
nothing else, as I know from my research into geospatial data policy that 
some US states (only a few, thankfully) are now required by State law to 
charge for their GIS services (even if the data is made freely available - 
which is *not* required by the Freedom of Information Act in the USA - 
which applies only to federal level data or data collected using federal 
funds). I also want to see if the statement "offering software freely 
available for other states to use." means only other State agencies would 
have access - or anyone could use this software.

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Government agencies to avail open source repository in US
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The fledgling Government Open Code Collaborative has set up a nationwide 
repository for government software applications, hosted on a server at the 
Massachusetts Information Technology Division data centre in Chelsea. The 
first 'deposits' into the repository will be made by Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island agencies offering software freely available for other states 
to use.
<http://i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src60>http://i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src60 


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Regards

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu 
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