Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 62-34.31.1

A. For the purposes of this section, "open source software"

means software that guarantees the user of the software use of the

software for any purpose, allows unrestricted access to the

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respective source code, enables the use of the internal mechanisms

and arbitrary portions of the software with the ability to adapt

them to the needs of the user, provides the freedom to make and

distribute copies of the software, and guarantees the right to

modify the software with the freedom to distribute modifications of

the new resulting software under the same license as the original

software. "Open standards" means specifications for the encoding

and transfer of computer data that is free for all to implement and

use in perpetuity, with no royalty or fee, has no restrictions on

the use of data stored in the format, has no restrictions on the

creation of software that stores, transmits, receives, or accesses

data codified in such way, has a specification available for all to

read, in a human-readable format, written in commonly accepted

technical language, is documented, so that anyone can write software

that can read and interpret the complete semantics of any data file

stored in the data format, allows any file written in that format to

be identified as adhering or not adhering to the format, and

provides that any encryption or obfuscation algorithms are usable in

a royalty-free, nondiscriminatory manner in perpetuity, and are

documented so that anyone in possession of the appropriate

encryption key or keys or other data necessary to recover the

original data is able to write software to access the data.

"Proprietary software" means software that does not fulfill all of

the guarantees provided by open source software.

B. Prior to approving software acquisition requests, the

purchasing entity shall consider whether proprietary or open source

software offers the most cost-effective software solution for the

agency, based on consideration of all associated acquisition,

support, maintenance, and training costs.

C. Whenever possible the Chief Information Officer or

purchasing entity shall avoid approving requests for the acquisition

of products that do not comply with open standards for

interoperability or data storage.