Question on OSD #5

[John Cowan]

Arnoud Engelfriet scripsit:

> I would think that if you introduce GPL code on a classified network,
> the physical security on that network would make it impossible to 
> distribute the code to elsewhere. 

Not impossible, just difficult.  At worst you copy down what the secure
terminal shows onto paper and then type it in yourself.  In the U.S., at
least, security is a personal obligation of people entrusted with secrets;
with the partial exception of nuclear technology, anyone who has not
been entrusted with a secret but has it anyway is free to publish it.
The person who gave it to them is civilly and criminally liable, but
not the recipient.  (IANAL, TI definitely NLA -- things may have changed
under the current regime.)

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