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Re:Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:58AM (#19317678)
Can they? How's that work, surely a resident in USA could take the work to the other country and make it available, if they can't then it wasn't public domain in the first place?

Can you point me to any caselaw/ analysis please?

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Re:Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool by MileyCyrax on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:59AM (#19318521)
I don't quite get it either, but one of their documentation files seems to imply that they can:

>In countries where copyright protection is available (which does not include the U.S.), contributions made by U.S. Federal Government employees are released under the License. Merged contributions from private contributors are released under the License.

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...

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Re:Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool by webninja on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @11:38PM (#19325530)
Guns
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