On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Why is that? The GPL requires you to pass the sources to the users of GPLed binary code on their request. There's no need to make source code generally available.
:) How should i know. This is VIA.
They also made it GPL specific. Under that linux addendum of theirs, you're allowed to do everything you want with any other free software license.
That suggests that this is plain stupidity and that the people who wrote that document were told some very superficial things about the GPL, and set out to mitigate its main directive.
I can't confirm this at all. VIA has been extremely helpful and absolutely unproblematic in NDA and IP questions where coresystems was involved.
Right, the times i was handed an nda directly i always got handed both standard documents. The NDA itself pretty much tells you you're not allowed to disclose anything, the addendum tells you that you're allowed to disclose everything, except that bit with gpled code VIA handed you directly.
Luc Verhaegen.