<story><title>Swiss Post Design System</title><url>https://swisspost-web-frontend.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blululu</author><text>In general this seems fair, but it also creates an externality.
A licensing system that offers a permissive license to the community that paid for it, and a more restrictive licensing terms for people in parts beyond seems more fair. 
Thinking of the United States, I could easily imagine that some states would just wait to copy the services developed by one of the larger states - which creates an unfair free rider situation.</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>&amp;quot;The Swiss Post Design System pattern library for a unified and accessible user experience accross the web platform.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;I really appreciate government and publicly funded organizations open sourcing their work. Another example is Swiss Television and their apps[2] or government apps[3]. The public paid for it so they should also be able to benefit from all the work.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;swisspost&amp;#x2F;design-system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;swisspost&amp;#x2F;design-system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SRGSSR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SRGSSR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;admin-ch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;admin-ch&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlg23</author><text>My $0.02: At least me, as a tax payer, would like to be able to say &amp;quot;yes, please give to to free riders&amp;quot;. I already paid for my problem to be solved and I did so, because the solution was worth the price. That&amp;#x27;s where my math ends (unless someone pays me to do some more math). Yes, please take my solution, just don&amp;#x27;t bother me with support or feature requests; I&amp;#x27;ll pass along the number of the company that implemented the solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Swiss Post Design System</title><url>https://swisspost-web-frontend.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blululu</author><text>In general this seems fair, but it also creates an externality.
A licensing system that offers a permissive license to the community that paid for it, and a more restrictive licensing terms for people in parts beyond seems more fair. 
Thinking of the United States, I could easily imagine that some states would just wait to copy the services developed by one of the larger states - which creates an unfair free rider situation.</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>&amp;quot;The Swiss Post Design System pattern library for a unified and accessible user experience accross the web platform.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;I really appreciate government and publicly funded organizations open sourcing their work. Another example is Swiss Television and their apps[2] or government apps[3]. The public paid for it so they should also be able to benefit from all the work.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;swisspost&amp;#x2F;design-system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;swisspost&amp;#x2F;design-system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SRGSSR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SRGSSR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;admin-ch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;admin-ch&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thesumofall</author><text>To which realistic disadvantage of the originator? Even in a scenario in which this becomes common practice and in which other organizations are indeed reusing the shared code (and that is a big if!), you could still argue that the originator benefits by attracting talent, shaping standards, positioning themselves as digital leaders, bringing transparency into what happens with taxpayers money, ...</text></comment>