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The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Post by maxmouchet »

nautical wrote: post #2

Some other countries recently took same path, relevant discussion here : 1) Singapore : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702701 2) India : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311298 3) Germany : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376682 ( no discussion, link to repository ) 4) France : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23321137

For France: https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19

Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Post by NewLogic »

daniel-grigg wrote: post #18
evolve2k wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia’s code is also open source. https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe

Curious, is there any traceability to verify the published code is what’s published to the app now or with updates?

The app isn't obfuscated an was quite quickly decompiled.

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Post by [deleted] »

morsch wrote: post #19
giovannibajo1 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks nice! Why is "SAP" holding the copyright? In Italy, the government acquired the copyright of the app (it was donated by the company that won the tender to develop it).

SAP and Deutsche Telekom -- two large IT corporations -- are the main developers. I don't know why the government doesn't hold the copyright, maybe it should. They've released it as free software, though (Apache license).

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Post by monocasa »

giovannibajo1 wrote: post #7
morsch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3) Germany : https://github.com/corona-warn-app (no discussion to be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376682 )

Looks nice! Why is "SAP" holding the copyright? In Italy, the government acquired the copyright of the app (it was donated by the company that won the tender to develop it).

I thought that you couldn't transfer copyright in Germany, only grant licences with all rights.

Like even as a developer, it's just in your employment contract that you grant all rights for work done for the company to the company.

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Post by hobofan »

morsch wrote: post #19
giovannibajo1 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks nice! Why is "SAP" holding the copyright? In Italy, the government acquired the copyright of the app (it was donated by the company that won the tender to develop it).

SAP and Deutsche Telekom -- two large IT corporations -- are the main developers. I don't know why the government doesn't hold the copyright, maybe it should. They've released it as free software, though (Apache license).

Copyright (at least the closest German equivalent of it) is non-transferable and automatically belongs to the creator, so it isn't really meaningful anyway. That's what licenses are for.

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Post by quonn »

morsch wrote: post #19
giovannibajo1 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks nice! Why is "SAP" holding the copyright? In Italy, the government acquired the copyright of the app (it was donated by the company that won the tender to develop it).

SAP and Deutsche Telekom -- two large IT corporations -- are the main developers. I don't know why the government doesn't hold the copyright, maybe it should. They've released it as free software, though (Apache license).

As far as I know, in Germany copyright cannot be transferred. There is a special and limited exception for direct employees, so the company can hold the copyright, but I doubt that a client (like the government) could hold it.

Re: The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

nautical wrote: post #2

Some other countries recently took same path, relevant discussion here : 1) Singapore : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702701 2) India : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311298 3) Germany : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376682 ( no discussion, link to repository ) 4) France : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23321137

Austria: https://github.com/austrianredcross
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