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by dataker 3884 days ago
>Showing source code to anybody (government or end user) does not make you loose your rights to that source code or the compiled application.

You lose control over your own property. That's enough. Similar to police officers entering your home without a warrant.

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One big difference is that you're distributing the binaries (or devices containing them) anyway, which makes them reverse-engineerable.