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The military gets to conduct Information Assurance (IA) reviews. These are tightly controlled so that only the IA reviewers get to look at the source code, and
by lucasjung 16y ago
The military gets to conduct Information Assurance (IA) reviews. These are tightly controlled so that only the IA reviewers get to look at the source code, and they are bound by heavy-duty NDAs. This gives DoD the opportunity to be sure that the code is safe, without giving them free reign to do as they please with the code. This process most definitely does not give the government the ability to treat the code as "open source," in the sense that one can freely modify, reuse, or re-purposing open source code.