7 Nov
2006
7 Nov
'06
10:12 a.m.
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Paul Davis wrote:
I also signed a NDA to get the documents to work on FreeBoB. I don't see
a problem there, as long as the NDA doesn't restrict me with respect to
the licensing of FreeBoB.
Pieter
Hannu was the guy who made sound on linux
possible in the first place.
Have a little respect. OK, so he and others decided to try to make a
business out of it, and they bowed down to NDA requirements from vendors
as part of doing that. Many of us never liked the results of that
decision, but its an understandable and, from some points of view, a
defensible one too.
NDAs are not all bad. I signed an NDA with creative, and the result is
better support for open source drivers for Audigy and E-MU cards. I
choose the GPL license for my code, but I could have chosen any other
license I wanted.
I am not allowed to copy the datasheets themselves, but I can write
anything I like in the source code. I.e. comments etc.
So, I don't believe the argument that signing NDAs requires closed
source drivers.