So why isn't the US sharing the JSF code with Britain, and why did we block the sale of Sourcefire to Israel?
Must be driving the no-borders software crowd crazy, LMAO.
Because they've decided that code was sensitive, unlike other code that they've released.
nd why did we block the sale of Sourcefire to Israel?
Back to the beginning of the circle. I'm still not sure about that. Snort is already open, so it had no effect there. As I said, my best bet is they didn't want a foreign company controlling the main fork. That plus Sourcefire comes with some proprietary code in addition to Snort, and the government didn't trust that a foreign entity wouldn't sneak a back door into it. They can verify that Snort is clean, but they can't verify that the rest of Sourcefire is.
The government of course has the power to block such a sale under the foreign commerce clause of the Constitution.