Comment Re:Pre-emptive strike against cluelessness (Score 1) 275
Even ignoring the legalities of the GPL, there is also the Freedom of Information Act. I know that this has been used to gather information from the government on HREF/Tempest monitoring. A quick search lead me to the ACLU's site on the FOIA.
One of the qualifications for releasing information listed was:
"Internal manuals written for the agency's staff that affect members of the public"
Sounds like we could at least get the instructions.
This document ( http://www.aclu.org/library/foia.html ) did just parse the actual act, and I did not look at the origional to see what all the conditions were that could qualify the source for release. The first exemption in the FOIA is national security, and trade secrets is another. Both of these could to defend against release.
One of the qualifications for releasing information listed was:
"Internal manuals written for the agency's staff that affect members of the public"
Sounds like we could at least get the instructions.
This document ( http://www.aclu.org/library/foia.html ) did just parse the actual act, and I did not look at the origional to see what all the conditions were that could qualify the source for release. The first exemption in the FOIA is national security, and trade secrets is another. Both of these could to defend against release.
