[ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

[Chris Rowson]

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> I can also understand a general unwillingness to disconnect software
> from the license under which it is made available; I don't see what's
> gained from splitting them. Why would you wish to be able to ban
> non-Open source products from tendering?
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You wouldn't want to ban non-open source products from tendering. Tenders
are usually assessed on a weighted point basis however, and as we have
discussed, some of the features of an open-source licence make that kind of
licence more desirable that a proprietary licence. I just wondered whether
or not declaring open-source as a product would make it difficult to assign
a desirable weighting to an open-source licence in the tender process?
Reading around the documentation however it seems that the Cabinet Office
is keen for UK.gov to adopt open-source over proprietary products when
there is no other difference.

Chris
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