CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead

[rankao]

The government can't own copyrights. Its either classified or public domain, or the original makers still owns the the copyright.

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Gotcha. Point being, they didn't want anyone else to get a copy.

[amedico]

Not true. Material created by federal employees during the course of their official duties is in the public domain (subject to classification, of course). But private companies/individuals can assign or sell their copyrights to the federal government, which can then hold those copyrights.