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[Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy



On 4/1/2016 9:11 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Until the corporation patents a proprietary modification of the Open
> Source software.

You know, if the full iOS source code were GPLv3 then the FBI would not
have needed Apple to provide a custom OS to help them extract the data
from Farook's iPhone. The FBI would be able to build it themselves.

Oh, yes. I just went there.

-- 
Rich P.



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