Using it for a service still isn't 'redistribution' as per the GPL. It still wouldn't be considered to have left the organization. It's perfectly fine use as

Using it for a service still isn't 'redistribution' as per the GPL. It still wouldn't be considered to have left the organization. It's perfectly fine use as per the GPL. And if it's the French government who contracted the whole thing, they're the original owner, not Orange, but either way it's fine (an owner giving access to a contractor to work on a program containing GPL code isn't considered redistribution either, nor is a contractor using open-source code in a project for a client). Edit - also even if Orange used it internally, then made the French government a service which uses it, as long as Orange simply re-sourced the code for the government it's fine. It's like Amazon selling hosted Linux images.