I was hoping that I wasn&#x27;t going to have to add the &quot;of course, unless the thing that ultimately owned the software was based out of another country&quot; qualifier to that statement.<p>I guess I should have. :(<p>&gt; ...domestic companies would justifiably be upset at being subject to harsher rules than foreign companies.<p>As I read it, nothing in the quoted TPP section precludes software purchasers from making access to source code a <i>requirement</i> of purchase. It prohibits <i>governments</i> from blocking the <i>sale</i> of &quot;foreign-produced&quot; software in their country if the software owner refuses to make the source code available.