Petition: Share government-developed software under an open source license
A petition is available
for signing urging the US government to "
Maximize the public benefit of federal technology by sharing government-developed software under an open source license" One of the top three reasons given is "
Openness: Open Sourcing ensures basic fairness and transparency by making software and related artifacts available to the citizens who provided funding, consistent with the President’s 2009 declaration that “Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset.”" Registration is required to sign the petition. The goal is to get 25,000 signatures by August 16 and they have a long way to go to achieve that goal.