EMBAG – Open Source procurement in Switzerland
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EMBAG is a Swiss federal law effective 1 January 2014 and Article 9 obliges the federal administration to publish source code it develops or commissions, with published guidelines released as open source to help implementation. A recent public tender explicitly reserves the right to publish deliverables under GPL and requires a machine-readable metadata file. CH Open runs an OSS Benchmark collecting federal GitHub repos, and projects like the trust broker and Swiss eID components already appear as open-source code.
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