Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scripsit Anthony Towns <[email protected]> > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:26:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > And, the real killer, it fails the Chinese dissident test rather > > > massively. > > > How so? If the government can't get to your regular data, then there's > > no reason for it to be able to get to the source code you provide either. > > Whut? The licence explicitly says that the modified program must > provide its own the source code to whoever asks for it, including the > government. The program must do so even if it protects the regular > data from unauthorized access (by cryptographic techniques with keys > stored separate from the source code, or whatever).
And, my data might be non-sensitive, but the program might well be.
