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Where is the IRS code?

• officialchicken 10y ago
  Under the Department of Commerce - unsurprisingly - there is nothing from IRS. A bit more surprising and entirely missing from the list (no source code): * Department of Education * Department of Health and Human Services * Department of Housing * Department of Interior * State Department * Department of Transportation And not really expecting anything from: * Department of Defense * Department of Homeland Security
  • xenophonf 10y ago
    DHHS: https://github.com/HHS https://github.com/HHS There are more if you know where to look. Some of the GitHub organizations are in their infancy, like NIAID's: https://github.com/niaid https://github.com/niaid Others are only semi-public; these generally consist forks of software they use or private repos used for external collaboration. I'm working on getting some of our stuff open-sourced. When it's written by contractors, the intellectual property rules can get complicated. Convincing a contractor to publish code their consultants wrote for a government project, no matter how minor, can be a tricky bit of advocacy. Sometimes they have really skewed ideas surrounding IP that must be overcome before this can happen. (Best case, our code will likely end up hosted by Internet2 or a similar foundation.)