NZ Open source advice changed
The NZ State Services Commission has bowed to the open source community by altering the language in a briefing paper that is designed to guide departments on the legal issues involved in using open source software.
The original guide, released in March, raised the hackles of the open source community and Green MP Nandor Tanczos by describing open source software licence terms as "infectious".
The term was used when cautioning departments that open source licence terms could be transferred to commercial software that was developed using open source tools.
Mr Tanczos was concerned the "loaded" term might result in government departments associating open source software with viruses.
SSC spokesman Jason Ryan says the adjective has been removed from the second version of the briefing paper and replaced with "propagating".
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