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Bulgaria passes Law that mandates Government Software must be Open Source
Usually, the answer is no.
After Edward Snowden's revelations, it's clear that how desperately government agencies wants to put secret backdoors in your network, devices, and software.
However, Bulgaria has come forward with an all new set of laws that would be appreciated by privacy lovers and open-source community.
The Bulgarian Parliament has passed legislative amendments to its Electronic Governance Act that require all software written for the country's government to be fully open-sourced and developed in the public Github repository.
This means that source code of software developed for the Bulgarian government would be accessible to everyone and provided free for use without limitations.
Article 58A of the Electronic Governance Act states that administrative authorities must include the following requirements for procuring software: