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The full policy is available here: https://sourcecode.cio.gov

This policy also establishes a pilot program that requires agencies, when commissioning new custom software, to release at least 20 percent of new custom-developed code as Open Source Software (OSS) for three years, and collect additional data concerning new custom software to inform metrics to gauge the performance of this pilot.

FSF got their definition into the doc, as a first-class peer of the OSI definition!

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/commit/1d4f...

That's major!

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