Posted by machine_easy2 on June 10, 2015, 4:46 pm, in reply to "ON THE FLIP SIDE"
(b) Technical data or software, whether or not developed with government funding, is not in the public domain if it has been made available to the public without authorization from: (1) The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls; (2) The Department of Defense's Office of Security Review; (3) The relevant U.S. government contracting entity with authority to allow the technical data or software to be made available to the public; or (4) Another U.S. government official with authority to allow the technical data or software to be made available to the public.
I care more about software than I do gun data (both should be open to the public). I have open source software I wrote published on GitHub. Do I need to take it off the web? Only a bureaucrat might think it could be used as a weapon. (Oh no, he's publishing math tools and educational games for kids... Stop him now!) A good deal of the software you are using is at least in part open source, including the Apache Server that sent you these words. In plain english, that paragraph states I need the governments permission to freely share MY Intellectual Property.
Get your grubby hands off my software Uncle Sam, while your at it, stop trying to extort comapanies into building back doors for you to spy on people. A back door, if present, will be found, and exploited by bad guys, like China, Russia, or US bureaucrats.
on June 10, 2015, 4:46 pm, in reply to "