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Not like they do now. If it was, you and I would know more about it because the infra would be required to be open source public domain
by Ericson2314 7y ago
Not like they do now. If it was, you and I would know more about it because the infra would be required to be open source public domain
- solidasparagus 7y agoWhat? Why do you think info about Top Secret-ready infrastructure would be public domain?
- Ericson2314 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States#Exemptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t... You would think there is a loophole for classified documents, but it is not mentioned there. They may be a perverse incentive to contract out so it can be secret-ish.
- solidasparagus 7y agoThat all sounds nice in theory but in practice you cannot get access to info about top-secret infrastructure. If you don't believe me, just try it.
- Ericson2314 7y agoHow do you know it wasn't all contracted? The best example I can think of is Ghidra from the NSA, which was formally classified. See https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master/NOTICE https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master..., parts of it are not the work of the government and not public domain.
- solidasparagus 7y agoI think what you're referring to is the copyright status of government work. Just because it is not copyrightable does not mean it is publicly available.