On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:34:35AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Huh? It seems meaningless to me: if you employ some people to work on > your program, you put them under NDA so that they agree not to disclose > the source code; if you work with other groups, you do likewise to them.
The license would forbid this, just like the GPL's clause 6 would. > If necessary, you do the NDAing at arm's length, something like: > > A changes the program > E employs B under a contract that they don't distribute the > program or its source, etc > E asks A to give B a copy of the program > A gives B a copy of the program This would leave A free to distribute the modifications. > E isn't covered by the program's license since he never has anything to > do with it. I don't think it would be remotely reasonable or enforcable > (or in line with giving people more free software) to somehow stop A from > giving the program to B, or to stop B from being able to give copies to > people who E approves of. If the program were GPLed, it _would_ stop B from being able to give copies to anyone unless the copies were unrestricted. This doesn't seem to be a problem in practice, though IIRC it collided with US export restrictions at some point. I think the end result of your scenario is that only B is restricted. Richard Braakman
