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=== Europe === Publiccode.eu is a campaign launched demanding a legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Public Money? Public Code! |url=https://publiccode.eu/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-08-27 |archive-date=2020-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219184118/https://publiccode.eu/ }}</ref> ==== France ==== The [[French Gendarmerie]] and the [[French National Assembly]] utilize the [[open source]] operating system [[Linux]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-02-27|title=AFP: French police deal blow to Microsoft|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w?hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227230123/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w?hl=en|archive-date=2014-02-27|access-date=2019-05-12}}</ref> ==== United Kingdom ==== [[Gov.uk]] keeps a list of "key components, tools and services that have gone into the construction of GOV.UK".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colophon for GOV.UK at launch | Government Digital Service|url=https://gds.blog.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141116114020/https://gds.blog.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/|archive-date=2014-11-16|access-date=2014-11-16}}</ref>{{sup|[''{{tooltip|title needed|This reference contains a placeholder title. Please replace it with the actual title of the work referenced. (April 2021)}}'']}}
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