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Why? They don't distribute it outside of their organization.

• glhaynes 16y ago
  What if they shared it with a contractor?
  • astine 16y ago
    Then they would have to share it with the contractor under the terms of the GPL. The contractor could then release it further. More likely though, the contractor would be brought in to work on the project and the military would argue that it wasn't distributing the code.
    • anamax 16y ago
      > The contractor could then release it further. Unless the contract said that they couldn't. And even if a specific contract didn't stop a given contractor from redistributing some GPL technology, how many contractors are going to risk being banned from future contracts because they redistributed?
      • astine 16y ago
        > Unless the contract said that they couldn't. I was going to mention that, but I wasn't sure whether the GPL would prevent that or not. As for the later point, yeah, no shit.:)
• forensic 16y ago
  good point. I didn't think of that.
  • stakent 16y ago
    Use AGPL.
    • DannoHung 16y ago
      They still wouldn't be distributing the service outside of their organization.
      • stakent 16y ago
        You are right. AGPL is not a solution. Thank you.