The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the launch of Code.mil, an open source initiative that allows software developers around the world to collaborate on unclassified code written by federal employees in support of DoD projects.
Call to action
In true open source fashion, DDS is hosting an open call to developers, lawyers, and other members of the open source and free software communities across the government and private industry to comment and review a draft open source agreement that is currently available on Code.mil. The agreement will outline the terms of use and participation, and will be finalized by the end of March. The draft can be found at https://github.com/deptofdefense/code.mil/blob/master/LICENSE-agreement.md.
The DDS will be the first to host project code written by their team of developers on Code.mil upon finalization of the open source agreement.
