Hi Carsten, Am Montag 15 September 2025 15:47:52 schrieb Carsten Agger: > "The Agency for Education must have full rights of use and unlimited > access to the complete source code, including documentation and > dependencies, for the purposes of operation, maintenance, and further > development.
the question is: What does "full rights of use" mean? With German Author's rights, it would also mean the exclusive right to license the software. If this is similiar, the agency can use this right to license the work as Free Software, but they do not have to. But all exclusive (copyrights) would need to be transfered to the principal, which could also chose to licence them proprietary. A company cannot bid with a piece of Free Software where they keep the exclusive rights. So unless "full rights of use" mean something else, this is not a requirement to procure Free Software, I thinkg. Best Regards, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute
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