Declaring Open Source

Declaring Open Source: "Declaring Open Source

A one-line patch to the U.S. Code would make open source software a charitable deduction

By John S. Irons, Carl Malamud

February 1, 2007

The U.S. Code is the operating system of our system of government, the line-by-line instructions that govern our federal government. The code contains provisions for pretty much everything you can think of and lots of stuff that causes wonderment about its inclusion."