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Bill: Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2518
Description[?]:
| An act to remove any state position on source code. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government allows both open and closed source software.
Current: The government allows both open and closed source software.
Proposed: The government has no stance on the source code of software.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:00:12, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | Why should the state involve itself in such trifling matters. It is a waste of resources maintaining this policy. |
| Date | 13:01:43, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | Opposed. |
| Date | 18:57:38, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | The state hardly can be accused of overregulating of minor matters. The law simply says both open and closed source code is allowed. What's wrong with that? We like the current law, thus we'll oppose. |
| Date | 21:59:01, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | It's not overregulating, in that it's not being regulated at all. But this is an active statement, that the government allows open and closed source. Why should the government /allow/ them? Why should the government have any stance at all? |
| Date | 22:16:30, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | then why is this being turned into an issue? |
| Date | 22:32:06, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | Because the current law is unnecessary. |
| Date | 22:36:02, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | I think this bill is unnecessary. You said why should the government have any stance at all and yet you are proposing a bill that will force the government to take a stance. How very Ron Paul of you. |
| Date | 22:42:49, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | This bill will stop the government from having a stance, in that is says "[t]he government has no stance on the source code of software." |
| Date | 23:31:55, January 16, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | oppose this prevents local gov from adopting a closed source policy |
| Date | 00:11:12, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Copyright (Source Code) Amendment Act |
| Message | "Why should the government have any stance at all?" Software has become more and more important, and probably will become even more important. Like other inventions some authors might want their creation to be protected, while others chose not to. This will require a legal base. But you'ld want to turn our current open policy in no policy, which is nonsence |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 75 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 294 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 105 |
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