Unfortunately, it's not the law of the land --- it's a judicial opinion, written in water and subject to change without notice. (Which is how judicial opinion should be; this is just a good opinion that ought to be codified by the legislature.)

We also owe a bit to Peter Junger (https://web.archive.org/web/20061012211535/http://samsara.la...).

He did quite a bit of work (and had a similar lawsuit) that code was speech.

He use to attend the Linux Users Groups meeting I was part of. Amazing person and really friggin' smart. Also, he was pretty good with Tex.

And Phil Zimmermann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann#Arms_Export_Co...

> Code is speech.

Not all code. From the linked article:

> However, the court cautioned that not all software could be considered expressive, and thus not all source code would necessarily be protected.

No, code will be deemed whatever fits the idealogy of the judiciary. Legal reasoning is secondary except for show nowadays given the partisan majority of the supreme court. Specious and convenient reasoning abound.