12 Jun
2002
12 Jun
'02
10:45 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ashok Iyer wrote:
This PDF article, written by Kenneth Brown of ADTI, attempts to explain that "Open source GPL use by government agencies could easily become a nation security concern. Government use of software in the public domain is exceptionally risky."
The article says that GPLed software is risky, but BSD style and public domain software is perfectly fine.
In other words, open source software is perfectly safe, but requiring that anyone who makes changes and publishes binaries with those changes also make the changed source available, that is not safe.
Explain how this makes sense?
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