After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.
经过四年和一次行政监管变更之后，第九巡回上诉法院裁定软件源代码受到第一修正案的保护，政府阻止其发布是违宪的。