[Infowarrior] - Obama Administration Uses Pirated Code on Healthcare.gov

[Richard Forno]

Obama Administration Uses Pirated Code on Healthcare.gov

     Ernesto
     October 19, 2013

http://torrentfreak.com/obama-administration-uses-pirated-code-on-healthcare-gov-131019/

The new Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has had its fair share of 
problems over the past weeks, and the trouble continues.

As it turns out, the Government website uses the open source software 
DataTables, which is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library.

While using open-source software is fine, the makers of Healthcare.gov 
decided to blatantly remove all references to its owners or the original 
copyright license.

In other words, they simply took the open-source software and are 
passing it off as their own, a clear violation of the GPL v2 and BSD 
(3-point) licenses DataTables uses.

For a comparison, here is the original DataTables file and this is how 
it looks on Healthcare.gov.

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SpryMedia, the company behind Data Tables told The Weekly Standard that 
they are “extremely disappointed” with the rip off and they will follow 
the issue up with the Department of Health and Human Services, who run 
Healthcare.gov.

Perhaps they can also contact the Department of Homeland security who 
are known to seize domains that assist in copyright infringement…

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