Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
