<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Russell Coker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au" target="_blank">russell@coker.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:06:50 Michael Cordover wrote:<br>
> Importantly, even if this material is released it still will not be "open<br>
> source" in the relevant sense. People will have a right to see it but not<br>
> to use it, create derivative versions etc. Copyright in the source code<br>
> will still be held by the government, presumably on an "all rights<br>
> reserved" basis.<br>
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</div>Getting the source published seems to be an important step towards getting it<br>
licensed for free use by the citizens.<br>
<br>
I recall Pia saying that CC license have some sort of default status for<br>
government data. So it seems that for anything that is released we can make a<br>
good case for CC release.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I doubt that the CC license would apply in this case: this code is (if I've understood correctly) one part of a commercial product developed independently of the government.<br>
<br>To my mind, I agree somewhat with Bret, in that I think that it's unlikely that this will result in code being made free-as-in-speech in any meaningful sense. To my mind, the fact that this gives us better scrutiny of how our elections are run is sufficient justification to support it; any chance of re-using the code elsewhere would be a bonus.</div>
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> I also hope it will put to rest those concerns that making source code<br>
> available can result in "security issues" for important systems. We know<br>
> this isn't true, but it was still raised in argument against release of the<br>
> code.<br>
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</div>The aim of the government organisations involved with the SE Linux project is<br>
to replace secret-source OSs with Linux distributions (primarily RHEL). By<br>
starting the project the NSA clearly indicated their opinion regarding<br>
"security by obscurity".<br>
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