23.10.2015 - 01:09 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

How Trade Agreements Harm Open Access and Open Source

We don‘t know exactly what the TPP‘s E-commerce chapter contains yet (it hasn‘t yet been published, officially or otherwise), but it may well contain a similar provision to TISA‘s. If it‘s any indication, we do know is that the TPP‘s IP chapter requires that “government agencies only use non-infringing computer software protected by copyright and related rights”—which, if taken literally, would exclude the use of software that has been dedicated to the public domain, such as SQLite.