Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263049AbVAFW1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:27:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263088AbVAFW1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:27:34 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:41224 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263049AbVAFW1W (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:27:22 -0500 Message-Id: <200501062227.j06MR9wQ004690@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/05/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: root Cc: Stephen Pollei , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OT Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:32:21 CST." <20050106213221.GA12866@mail.gadugi.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20050106180414.GA11597@mail.gadugi.org> <200501061836.j06IakHo030551@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20050106183725.GA12028@mail.gadugi.org> <200501061935.j06JZMq4013855@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1105043496.970.49.camel@fury> <20050106213221.GA12866@mail.gadugi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1105050429_32686P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:27:09 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1105050429_32686P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. Hint: I doubt the guys at opensource.org will approve a license that involves an NDA... --==_Exmh_1105050429_32686P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFB3bs8cC3lWbTT17ARArzgAKDoO8tt17z6WchaHXOhhRH39fXrGQCg5BGw mgb7+ID0IMFu/KYb3M4vYmQ= =PxUi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1105050429_32686P-- - 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/