Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman has issued a memorandum detailing how acquisition officials across DOD should evaluate open-source software for defense contracts. "Over the last two decades, open-source software (OSS) has dramatically impacted how software is designed, developed, deployed, and operated. OSS is software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, re-use, modification, enhancement, and redistribution by the users of such software. There are millions of publicly available OSS components, libraries, and applications capable...
