CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead

jamie found this piece, at Wired's Danger Room from a couple of days back, about an encouraging sign for the growth of open source in the military / intelligence sphere. "For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to get a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code’s intellectual property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley. So now, Burton’s releasing it — free to the public, and under an open source license."

Comments

This fucking guy

[oldhack]

Doesn't he understand how the revolving door system work? Why is he fucking with our common well? Damn. Like we don't all have boat payments and stuff.

Re:"Open Source" tells us almost nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

If you had bothered to actually RTFA, you'd have seen it has been released under the Apache license. While not a BSD license, it's about as liberal and "do whatcha want" as most OSS licenses get.