An Xmas present for you to peruse, comment, and mull..

[Seth Cohn]

Ok, sitting down to review various comments...

Bill asked:
>> (a)  Unrestricted use of the software for any purpose;
>Can this be construed against GPL-ish licenses?  If the State wanted to distribute the software for some purpose,
> GPL'ed software would have restrictions.

The above covers _use_, distribution is (e)
>                   (e)  Freedom to make and distribute copies of the software

I think the software released with weird 'not to be used by the
military' and other edge conditions don't meet the generic open source
standard either... again, avoid edge conditions to simplify things.

Jon's suggestions were all good ones, and should be folded in, and the
resulting discussion between Joshua and Jon pointed out that there is
a quagmire I don't want to head towards, so I'm sticking to what I
think we all agree on as the basics.

I'll use the DOD info during the hearing(s), and of course, anyone
interested in helping is welcome!

As for NH favoritism, I think it's a good thing to discuss, especially
in terms of increased NH employment, but we actually are the ONE state
without a favoritism clause for contracts.  Perhaps we can revisit
that, but essentially, right now, if you are underbid by even $1 from
out of state, you lose the contract.  Software, Hardware, or anything
else.

When I get final text, I'll point folks toward it...

Now, I need to work on the other bill regarding Open Government Data.
The Open Source bill is Input (well, and infrastructure), the Open
Data bill is Output (mostly data formats and principles to define the
direction we should be going...)

Seth
aka Rep. Cohn