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August 30th, 2007, 04:25 PM
#7
 Originally Posted by nihil
What has the GPL got to do with anything?
The NSA is contracting VMware, a software developer, to provide them with a bespoke, secure system. As such, it is a government contract and closed source.
The IP and source will belong to the government, as they are paying for it 
They are going to use "VWMare's Hypervisor" which is the base of ESX... which relies on Linux and uses portions of Linux... so I'd say it has everything to do with the GPL 
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