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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Cross-posting FYI. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>DISA is an agency in the US Department of
Defense. Please let John Weathersby (<a href="mailto:jmw@oss-institute.org"
title="mailto:jmw@oss-institute.org">jmw@oss-institute.org</a>) or me know if
you have any questions about this new open source project or its licensing
strategy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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ossi-bounces@oss-institute.org [mailto:ossi-bounces@oss-institute.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>jmw<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 17, 2009
11:36 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ossi@oss-institute.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Ossi] DISA to open
source administrative software</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/17/disa-open-source.aspx"
title="http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/17/disa-open-source.aspx">DISA to open
source administrative software</a></span></font></b><br>
Other agencies free to use, modify human resource management software<br>
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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to open source a suite of
programs that it developed for administrative tasks. The agency has signed a
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Open Source Software
Institute (OSSI) to help release the source code of the programs.<br>
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The set of 50 programs, collectively called the Corporate Management
Information System (CMIS), handles duties such as human resource management,
training, security, acquisition and related functions. All the programs were
developed by internally by DISA, and are used by more that 16,000 users
worldwide.<br>
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“Numerous other government agencies have asked if we'd allow them to
adopt CMIS for their internal use," Jack Penkoske, DISA's director of
manpower, security and personnel, said in a statement. "We believe this
will be a win-win for all involved.”<br>
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By allowing third-party developers to view, modify, and reuse the software
source code, DISA is hoping that others will improve the code when they modify
it for their own purposes.<br>
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DISA will license the software under version 3 of the <a
href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php"
title="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php">Open Software License</a>
as well as version 3 of the <a
href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-3.0.php"
title="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-3.0.php">Academic Free License</a>,
according to John Weathersby, OSSI's executive director.<o:p></o:p></p>
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from the mobile desk of<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>John M. Weathersby, Jr.</span></b><br>
Executive Director<br>
Open Source Software Institute<br>
<a href="http://oss-institute.org" title="http://oss-institute.org/">http://oss-institute.org</a><br>
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; <br>
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.<br>
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