Re: OT Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation

From: root
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 21:23:33 EST


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:27:09PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:32:21 CST, root said:
>
> > If the license says the receipient of a piece of code must acknowledge
> > and protect the trade secrets it contains, then it's enforceable.
>
> To protect a secret means making at least some attempt to keep it from
> becoming general knowledge. If you can come up with a *practical* way
> to give me a piece of *open source* software that contains a trade secret
> and still keep it a secret, we'd all (especially the guys at NVidia ;) would
> love to know it.

Stay tuned ....

>
> Hint: I doubt the guys at opensource.org will approve a license that involves
> an NDA...



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