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UK government launches open source CO2 calculator
June 20, 2007
Back in March the UK’s Conservative Party vowed to encourage the adoption of open source adoption if elected at the next General Election.*
Today the Labour Party did its bit by releasing the code behind its new carbon footprint calculator under the general public license.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs launched the new carbon calculator which “is designed to increase understanding of the link between individual action and climate change, through carbon dioxide emissions.”
According to the developers, dgen network:
“We have agreed with UK Government to release its Crown Copyright data via the system. We also have agreed to release all our software under General Public License or equivalent licenses. With any other data we add to the platform, we are encouraging contributors to adopt the Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license."
“The calculator is a public ‘trial’ or beta version, and there are plans to develop and improve it using feedback and ideas from users. Further updates of the calculator will be released over the next few months with the addition of more features to make it even easier for people to calculate their carbon footprint.”
*I asked the Tory party for more information about how it would do this, incidentally, and got no response. Make of that what you will.
Comments
You are wrong to say this is the Labour Party - this is the apolitical civil service, not the party machine.
Also the free bit comes from the developer, the only government input is non-free, the Crown Copyright data.
You are spinning this as Labour Party likes open source, and it's not close.
To be clear - we, the developers, were called by Defra because we were already developing an open source solution. They were looking for one and Milliband was involved in the process. We have been very encouraged and delighted by the support that the project has received and while we don't represent Govt in any way, I'd say there is a lot of activity in this area to be interested in.
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