Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

[Smith, McCoy]

> I'd love to understand the arguments that led to the conclusion that GPLv3 
> licensed works represent a greater public good here and thus justify more 
> subsidy than others.
> 
Hazarding a guess: the Installation Information provision of GPLv3 (aka 
anti-TiVoization) might have held sway here.
I seem to recall lots of press circa 2004 about how a certain voting machine 
maker was making political donations to one party, with the implication that 
they might be manipulating their machines to record votes one way, without the 
local government being able to see how they were doing so, or alter the 
machines to stop it from being done.
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