All OSDV-supported software development work results in open-source software. The softeare is available via an open-source license, the OSDV Public License (or OPL), and is distributed via our public-access source code repository.
The OPL has what may be a unique mission among open-source licenses: to define the legal terms of use for software to be acquired by state and local government organizations engaged in conducting or supporting elections. To learn more about this rationale for the OPL, why it was necessary, why it was developed from a basis in the Mozilla Public License, please read “OSDV Public License Agreement: Rationale”.
The OPL is available as an HTML document, as a PDF document, and as a plain text document. Comments are welcome as described in the Rationale document.
Credits: The OPL and the rationale document were developed by Heather Meeker of Greenberg-Traurig, Attorneys, and the OSDV legal department, who are grateful for assistance and review from several people in the open-source license community.
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