🚀 go-pugleaf

Remco Gerlich wrote in gnu.misc.discuss:
> 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?

Oops. I've read more of the thread, and it seems they *do*. Then that
would violate clause 6 pretty clearly, it seems to me. Still, there's
an interesting hypothetical situation, if Sony didn't distribute anything
but allowed people to sign NDAs for GCC with them, and if Cygnus only
distributed to people who had signed that NDA...


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