--- title: OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source... description: OpenUK, a UK-based open source advocacy non-profit, is calling on the British government to establish a national foundation modeled after the Linux Foundation.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openuk-wants-britain-to-stop-giving-away-open-source-creations-2oztghnbf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations | daily.dev og:description: OpenUK, a UK-based open source advocacy non-profit, is calling on the British government to establish a national foundation modeled after the Linux Foundation.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openuk-wants-britain-to-stop-giving-away-open-source-creations-2oztghnbf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2ozTgHnbf.png og:image:alt: OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenUK, a UK-based open source advocacy non-profit, is calling on the British government to establish a national foundation modeled after the Linux Foundation. The proposal, detailed in their AI Openness report, aims to prevent publicly funded UK open source work from migrating to foreign governance structures. The group cites the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a key example — created by two London-based engineers, it was ultimately donated to the US-based Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation because no UK equivalent existed. OpenUK points to Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency and China's Open Atom Foundation as working models, and notes the UK ranks as Europe's top country in open source yet lacks comparable institutional infrastructure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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