Espanha
Administrations in Spain and Portugal heckled over licence violations
Tue, 01/06/2010 - 12:13 — adminThe Spanish Police, Spanish Mint and Portugal's Agency for Administrative Modernisation have been heckled by developers of OpenSC, open source software for smart cards. The developers found that the public administrations use their software libraries, but have not made available this open source code, one of the terms of their licence.
The Portuguese Agency for Administrative Modernisation corrected the error last week, the open source developers report.
According to one of them, Martin Paljak, the Portuguese agency had overlooked the emails sent by OpenSC at first. "A few weeks ago we tried again, and then they replied and began fixing the mistake."
ES: Decree says government's reusable IT projects should be shared
Thu, 20/05/2010 - 07:24 — adminSpanish public administrations that own software applications that can be shared with others, must allow the free use and re-use of the software. If possible such projects should be published using the European Union Public Licence (EUPL), according to the country's national interoperability framework, Royal Decree 4/2010, adopted last January.
The decree also says 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. Its criteria and recommendations are to be taken into account for all IT projects by public administrations in the country. Apart from recommendations about standardisation of information, the framework deals with the preservation of digital information.
Extramadura publishes agribusiness supply chain tool as open source
Wed, 17/03/2010 - 08:48 — adminThe Extramadura government has published as open source JEXTraza, a supply chain tool meant to help agribusinesses verify and manage product information from source to destination. The tool is meant to be used in combination with OpenBravo, an open source enterprise resource system.
The JEXTraza project was introduced on Forja Linex, the Extramadura government' site for the development of open source software, early last February. That coincidentally made it the two thousandth project at OSOR.eu, which federates the software development projects of eleven forges.
Andalusia to distribute open source laptops to schools
Thu, 24/09/2009 - 07:45 — adminIn the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia, 190,500 students and teachers will start using open source laptops in January, Spanish newspapers reported earlier this month.
Escola de Negócios espanhola recomenda Software Livre
Fri, 24/07/2009 - 16:17 — adminA EOI, uma das melhores escolas de negócio espanholas, sob a alçada do Ministério da Ciência e Investigação, publicou um interessante relatório sobre Software Livre, que demonstra a seriedade da sua adopção mesmo para potenciais clientes que não o utilizam devido a preconceitos.
