All this is reminding me not a little of the original crypto wars when Zimmerman was up against the feds in the headlines semmingly every other day.
In the end publishing the source code as a literal, printed book and exporting it from the USA as printed material (Free Speech!) then OCRing the contents in whatever country they wanted to get it to only now we already have a precedent for code is speech and those extra steps might not be necessary.
Could it have anything to do with Wikipedia usually being the number one result people are actually searching for for a great number of queries? And they want to distribute that traffic more democratically?
In the end publishing the source code as a literal, printed book and exporting it from the USA as printed material (Free Speech!) then OCRing the contents in whatever country they wanted to get it to only now we already have a precedent for code is speech and those extra steps might not be necessary.