The decree also states that Spain's public administrations should consider if available software applications can be used for free.
The Spanish government published an English translation of its interoperability framework on 30 April 2010. Its criteria and recommendations are to be taken into account for all Information Technology (IT) projects by the Spanish public administrations. Apart from the recommendations on the standardisation of information, the framework deals with the preservation of digital information.
The decree describes how public administrations can set licensing conditions for their software projects. "The aim is to use and re-use the software and to protect against appropriation of the code by a third party."
If projects are made public as open source, public organisations should try to use the EUPL as a licence, allowing others to use and to adapt the software.
The decree also points out that public organisations should make such software available, using governmental software development websites. The document refers to the software repository maintained by the central government, the Technology Transfer Centre and to repositories made available by other public administrations.
About a hundred representatives of all levels of the Spanish government, IT experts and IT companies were involved in the drafting of the framework.
Further Information:
- Original news article - OSOR.EU
- Related ePractice Publication - ES: National Interoperability Framework for eGovernment
- Related ePractice Case - National Interoperability Framework of Spain
- Technology Transfer Centre - National Interoperability Framework (in Spanish)
- Related OSOR EUPL Community - Impact of the Spanish Royal Decree 4/2010 of 8 January 2010
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 01.06.2010
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