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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago

IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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The tax man won't be happy about this.

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

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    Isn’t most software made by the US government required to be open source anyway?

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      Ahahahahaha this is America we’re talking about

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      Actually, it’s illegal for them to make software copyleft :(

      We need to change that law :(

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        That’s just untrue. The NSA even has a pretty cool repo.

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          Unfortunately it’s not untrue. There are some exceptions to the law.

          Either NSA got an exception or their code is public domain

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