Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268683AbTGIXJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:09:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268684AbTGIXJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:09:43 -0400 Received: from ns1.cypress.com ([157.95.67.4]:1430 "EHLO ns1.cypress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268683AbTGIXJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:09:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0CA412.2020903@cypress.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:24:02 -0500 From: Thomas Dodd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: andre@linux-ide.org Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL References: <002901c33fe6$87374480$0200a8c0@wsl3> In-Reply-To: <002901c33fe6$87374480$0200a8c0@wsl3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 24 vlad@lrsehosting.com wrote: > Just for the record, US law does not work that way. No civil contract can > force you to do something illegal as Andre suggests. He's just flat wrong He never said the NDA forced him to _do_ something _illegal_. Instead it forces him to _not do_ something _legal_. I once had a job where I wasn't to drive the company vehicle faster than 45 MPH. Even if the speed limit is 55 MPH, I could have been fired for driving that fast. Similar situation for Andre. Legaly he can distrubite the code in question, but he would loose future work because of it. Nobody would trust him, regardless of his reasons. He (would have) violated the NDA. -Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/