Should governments be able to force source code to be open? Arguably, yes. But the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement prevents authorities from requiring that, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned recently. As a result, the TPP places severe restrictions on open source software. The TPP, which was finalized this October, is a trade agreement between a dozen countries in the Pacific region. Among its many stipulations is an interesting one regarding open source code.
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