Free Open Source Software Protection Act 2022 - FOSSPA 2022 <LAW>

The General Assembly is disappointed in the World Assemblies failure to pass GAR615 and therefore codifies a modified version to its books of law.

Defining Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as software which is both:

Free of cost and largely free of restrictions in regards to anything performed on, for, or with the software (such as its usage, modification, and distribution), including both:

commercial (i.e. for profit), purposes, and

purposes which may be illegal in other jurisdictions, with the exception of those illegal under international law, and

Open source, or its programming is available in its entirety and easily accessible to/for all members of the public without restriction, except in regards to regulations on the editing of the master copy of the software to ensure its quality,

Recognizing that many integral components of everyday life, including, but not limited to, digital stores of information and various forms of telecommunications, are at least partially dependent on FOSS,

Acknowledging that without FOSS, many of the above constituents of modern life may never have come about,

Concerned that such an acknowledgment does not go nearly far enough to encourage and repay developers and other supporters of FOSS, protect their ability to freely contribute to FOSS, or protect the ability of others to use and otherwise perform actions with/to FOSS,

Hereby:

Requires that all states and subordinate nations of the United States of Americanas:

recognize and protect the right of individuals and entities to, for any legal purpose:

access any and all FOSS,

run FOSS as they wish, on computer systems where they are legally entitled to,

study and modify FOSS,

distribute original and modified copies of FOSS, and

establish a legal framework in which the owners and/or developers of FOSS can exercise limited rights granted by copyright law over their software to ensure the software and its derivatives remain free and open source to the maximum possible extent, and

At no time shall a person interfere with use of FOSS unless to do so is prevention of the release or use of malware intended to harm or destroy computing systems.

At no time shall this act interfere with the Ethical Hacking rule established within the DBoR. FOSS classified as malware may be used for Ethical Hacking and only for Ethical Hacking.

It is accepted by both the progressive and conservative party unanimously

The electronic voting system was used for this bill

The ballots were cast at the time of 8:05PM-8:20PM On this day of June 26th 2022

The ballots were counted immediately by the tabulator grid

500-0 (Ayes hold the floor)

The FOSSPA 2022 is passed and is law