The UK’s public sector should keep its code open source by default, the government has urged, after the NHS reportedly yanked public repos.
The Government Digital Service (GDS) said openness should “remain the default posture” after fielding concerns from tech leaders in the civil service, it said in guidance published May 14.
It said “code produced with public money should be open and reusable by default, with limited, justified exceptions” and described the “advantage” gained by attackers viewing code as “usually incremental relative to underlying presence of weaknesses.”
