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Re: GPL and NDAs

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From: Henning Makholm
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:00
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Scripsit ttk@for_mail_remove_this_and_fruit.larva.apple.shinma.org (TTK Ciar)

> Similarly, the company (Sony in this case) is making the choice to
> only give the binaries (and hence the source, as required by GPL) to
> people who have signed NDA's.

Which is illegal.

The GPL allows Sony to choose at their whim to give me or not to give
a copy of their GCC version. That is because I haven't signed any NDA.

The monent I sign an NDA which covers the source code of the GCC
variant and which it is within Sony's powers to nullify, it becomes
illegal for Sony to give me binaries with or without the source.

If Sony knowingly distibutes the GCC variant to me after they have
made me sign an NDA, they are violating the GPL that allows them to
distribute it at all.

-- 
Henning Makholm             "Jeg forst�r mig p� at anvende s�danne midler p�
                           folks legemer, at jeg kan varme eller afk�le dem,
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                  jeg vil, eller give aff�ring og meget andet af den slags."
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