[TriLUG] TPP could invalidate the GPL

[Aaron Joyner via TriLUG]

Based on my lay reading...

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Bill Farrow via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Will this prevent governments from mandating open source software


Nope.


> or
> requiring the ability to audit the source code of critical systems.


They can't require you to release the source code, or allow it to be
audited, for you to be allowed to import, distribute, use or sell it in
their country*.*  They can (and I agree, should) do so as a condition
before *they choose to buy it* from you.

Aaron S. Joyner