Mark Gray
"John F. Eldredge"
writes: root@cups.cupserv.org [mailto:root@cups.cupserv.org]On Behalf Of Fred A. Miller wrote:
The National Security Agency has contracted for a secure Linux operating system. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/web-nsalinux-01-17-00.asp
I suspect that this WON'T be open source software. :)
Which brings up an interesting point about the GPL copyright -- if they modify the kernel, they are required to make all the source code available to their customers and they are required to put the derived program under the GPL copyright. (They cannot put _any_ additional restrictions on the distribution of the entire source code package.) And in fact they may well want to release their modifications, since
Bwaahaahaahaahaaaaaa!
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Bud Rogers