From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262524AbTGAPZ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:25:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262498AbTGAPZ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:25:57 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:19184 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262497AbTGAPZZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:25:25 -0400 Reply-To: From: To: "'Anders Karlsson'" , "'Andre Hedrick'" Cc: Subject: RE: Dell vs. GPL Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:36:22 -0500 Message-ID: <002901c33fe6$87374480$0200a8c0@wsl3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <1057038825.7180.8.camel@lenin.trudheim.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 about this. -- /"\ / For information and quotes, email us at \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / info@lrsehosting.com X AGAINST HTML MAIL / http://www.lrsehosting.com/ / \ AND POSTINGS / vlad@lrsehosting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Anders Karlsson Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:54 AM To: Andre Hedrick Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:48, Andre Hedrick wrote: > The best solution is to forget what you see and know, is how the game is > played. When things are sent to me outside of the scope of NDA's and they > effect my contributions is where I can free move. > > Anything under NDA stays there regardless. Andre, I can see where you are coming from on this, but nevertheless, the NDA is not enforcable if illegal activities are taking place. Ask your legal council and they should be able to confirm this. If what you are fearing is economical retaliation from the companies that made you sign an NDA to ensure your silence, the legal system of US should protect you from that. All I can say, if US law require you to cover up illegal/criminal activity because you signed an NDA, get the f*ck out of US jurisdiction as fast as you can. I am living in the UK at the moment, and I can not thoroughly recommend that as an alternative to living in the US. There are countries with better legal systems in the EU than what UK has. Just my two pennies worth. /A - 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/