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This link on the front page is broken:
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/developers/sourcecodepolicy/

So in 2. iii. there is a statment:

All source code as defined in 2)a and 2)b above must be catalogued and shared with the general public via a highly visible, easily accessible online source code community that facilitates the code’s reuse. Source code shall not be released if any of the following conditions are met:

But there is no 2)a or 2)b. In fact there is not even a level representing single lower case letters. It goes straight from numbers to lower case roman numerals, THEN to lower case letters.

I'd like to share a thought and maybe start a discussion about something. In 2.iii.a:

The author of the code in question determines that the code is too crude to merit distribution or provide value to the broader community.

It seems like we could take this and turn it into benefit of open source under 1.ii.a. Instead of providing a potential loophole to a robust open-source-by-default policy, we could emphasize that open-source-by-default encourages the authoring of cleaner code because it will be distributed to the broader community.