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"it's significant that the NSA's massive XKeyscore program runs on a Linux cluster."

Is there an option in Creative Commons or GPL to exclude government use?




No, and at least on the GPL, this is by principle. Free software, as proposed by the FSF, is agnostic to these issues by design.


Such an exclusion would be incompatible with the GPL. There are other licenses that do have such an exclusion.


If they modified GPL code, maybe they can be sued to release changes.


The only action possible against the federal government for copyright violation is an action in the Court of Federal Claims to recover money damages. [1]

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1498


No, and that is one of the reason GPLs in an immoral license.




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