Well in the case of source code I'd say the protection is pretty strong, considering the courts allowed publication of code that the government considered a mun

Well in the case of source code I'd say the protection is pretty strong, considering the courts allowed publication of code that the government considered a munition: > The Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (the ITAR regulatory scheme) required Bernstein to submit his ideas about cryptography to the government for review, to register as an arms dealer, and to apply for and obtain from the government a license to publish his ideas. Failure to do so would result in severe civil and criminal penalties. > ...the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.