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Robert Harley wrote in gnu.misc.discuss:
> Piercarlo Grandi wrote:
> > However Sony almost certainly distribute the Cygnus GCC kit with an NDA
> > that forbids revealing to anyone any detail of the PS2 CPU, [...]
> > the Cygnus announcements states flatly that the GCC kit is only
> > available to people that have signed the Sony NDA: [...]
> > If this is the case, wouldn't this be a straight, clearcut violation of
> > the GPL by Sony _and_ Cygnus?
> 
> It sure looks like a violation by Sony to me, but not by Cygnus
> unless they try to enforce Sony's NDA.

How can it be a violation by Sony, if they don't even distribute GCC?
Cygnus distributes GCC, and the GPL applies to it. They can choose
who they want to distribute to. They choose to give it only to people
who have signed a NDA with Sony, making it impossible for those recipients
to distribute GCC further, even though it's under the GPL.

I'm confused. If it was Cygnus who they were signing NDAs with, it would
be a violation, but now I don't see any...

Scary. Neither Sony nor Cygnus seem to be violating the GPL, and yet
this construction seems to leave it pretty much void :-(.

IANAL though.
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