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Subject: RE: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members 
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:44:28 -0800
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Thread-Topic: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members 
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From: "Stephen Warren" <SWarren@nvidia.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, "root" <root@mail.gadugi.org>
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> 
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:04:14 CST, root said:
> > This legislation Will be voted on in the Rules Committee 
> > Jan 17 and will be presented for 
> > ratification to the Full Tribal Council on February 14, 
> > 2005. This legislation is designed 
> > to protect trade secrets for both open source development 
> > and general public licensing 
> > schemes as well as proprietary technology developed in the 
> > commerical sector.
> 
> I fail to see how you can *possibly* have "trade secret" 
> rights in open source
> software.  At least not in any way interoperable with any 
> other country's usage
> of the term "trade secret".

Nor is it compatible with the definitions of the words "public" and
"secret" in the English language...

-- 
Stephen Warren, Software Engineer, NVIDIA, Fort Collins, CO
swarren@nvidia.com        http://www.nvidia.com/
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