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News / Re: Closing of Assist - Game Over
« on: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 09:18:30 AM »Let me give it to you this way, US Tax payer money paid for this so it does not belong to the army or Epic.
17 USC § 105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
Epic screwed itself when entering the deal with the government/military. It's the law not their choice.
I have no legal background and would love to see AA2 source made available. That said here is another argument pulled from that same thread:
17 USC § 105 applies to Government works but probably not to Military and Military subcontracts.
The way I see it, they aren't going to just give away the source code. If someone wants it they would have to spend the time/money and go through lawyers to attempt to get it released.