Walter Landry wrote: > Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net> wrote: >>Edmund Grimley-Evans 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. >> >>Whoa, back up a minute. That's not even close to acceptable, and it's >>not something the GPL would allow either. If the software you are >>distributing is copylefted, all those you distribute the software to >>must have all the same Freedoms to that Free Software, which precludes >>the possibility of an NDA. > > The QPL won't even allow something like a gentlemen's agreement. If > the agreement is broken, then the industry partner won't be getting > any more technology previews. This is fine with the GPL. Agreed, and that's a perfectly reasonable way to go about it. An NDA is not, though. - Josh Triplett
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