> After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.
FWIW, I imagine in 4-5 years this “battle” will pretty much already be decided wrt chipmaking in China.
prz and djb did great work to stop it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
> After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.
FWIW, I imagine in 4-5 years this “battle” will pretty much already be decided wrt chipmaking in China.