[opensource-wg] Ukrainian open source app for citizen's digital documents & government services

Comrades in open source,

This popped up on my radar today:

https://opensource.diia.gov.ua/en.html

It seems like a good initiative, and in general I think that governments 
have a duty to make source code available whenever possible.

I checked the GitHub:

https://github.com/diia-open-source/

And it looks like all of the code is under the EUPL, which is a nice 
copyleft license.

However if you look at the main page there is a section titled Open 
Source Usage License, which takes you here:

https://opensource.diia.gov.ua/documents/Public_licence.DOCX

This license includes things like:

2.6. This License applies to the territory of all states of the world 
(except for the territories of states recognized by the Verkhovna Rada 
of Ukraine as aggressor states, states subject to sanctions in 
accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Sanctions", states that are 
members of customs and military unions with such states).

And also:

1.3.5. the Licensee – any person (except for persons of states 
recognized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as aggressor states, states 
subject to sanctions in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On 
Sanctions”, states that are members of customs and military unions with 
such states) who voluntarily uses the Diia mobile application software 
under a public license;

Such provisions would likely prevent the license from being considered 
free (as in freedom) by folks like the OSI.

Honestly I'm not really sure where this second license is meant to 
apply, since the source code currently is under the EUPL which has no 
such restrictions.

Anyway, I thought it was interesting!

Cheers,

--
Shane
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