[Open-Legislation] French civil code on git

Wed Apr 8 10:01:40 UTC 2015

Hey Stef,
In order to easily read and follow the diffs and ultimately lead to
git blame for pieces of legislation?
Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:46 AM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 11:17:23AM +0200, John Levin wrote:
>> An interesting project from France: the civil code on github:
>> Article:
>> http://qz.com/373326/the-entire-french-legal-code-dating-back-to-napoleon-is-now-on-github/i/373366/
>> Code:
>> https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
>> Searchable interface:
>> http://www.codecivilsearch.fr/
>
> the old question nags again, why does it make sense to put this stuff into
> github? stefan wehrmeyer did it with the german bundestag. and please spare me
> the "citizens can submit amendments as pull requests" argument, if you know
> how politics/parliaments work, this is very far away detached from reality.
>
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