Re: Summary : ocaml, QPL and the DFSG.
Edmund Grimley-Evans <edmundo@rano.org> wrote:
>I was thinking of a case where the software is being used in a
>secretive industry. For example, suppose I work for a semiconductor
>company with 500-100 employees. A lot of what we do is temporarily
>confidential, in that we don't want the rest of the world finding out
>what we are working on until there is an official announcement. We use
>free software. We even use ML in some projects, though I personally
>use Haskell. Sometimes we might want to distribute software that uses
>a free library to selected partners, with whom carefully drafted
>non-disclosure agreements have been signed. I can't imagine the legal
>department accepting anything like 6c.
Why should free software support companies in not releasing their
knowledge to the world? Why do we consider the freedom to hoard
information an important one?
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
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