From: Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: andre@linux-ide.org
Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:24:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0CA412.2020903@cypress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002901c33fe6$87374480$0200a8c0@wsl3>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-09 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-28 5:51 Dell vs. GPL Fluke
2003-06-28 6:12 ` Joshua Penix
2003-06-28 15:05 ` Doug McNaught
2003-06-28 15:12 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-06-28 15:18 ` Doug McNaught
2003-06-28 15:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-29 4:22 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-29 10:33 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30 4:07 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 6:39 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-30 6:56 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 9:45 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-09 23:28 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 2:48 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-10 14:41 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 15:05 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-10 15:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-10 15:52 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-07-10 19:04 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 19:22 ` OT: " Dana Lacoste
2003-06-30 15:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 16:54 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 17:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 18:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 20:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 20:44 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 21:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 21:34 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 5:03 ` vlad
2003-07-01 5:27 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 12:50 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 20:55 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-06-30 20:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-06-30 20:48 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 5:53 ` Anders Karlsson
2003-07-01 6:56 ` jw schultz
2003-07-01 7:21 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 15:38 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-07-01 13:17 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-07-01 15:36 ` vlad
2003-07-01 16:05 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-07-01 16:45 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-07-01 17:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-09 23:24 ` Thomas Dodd [this message]
2003-07-01 12:46 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30 17:37 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <3BZo.5iM.27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-29 14:04 ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-28 18:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-29 17:47 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 17:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-29 4:16 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-29 11:49 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 21:45 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 4:01 ` ahorn
2003-06-30 4:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 6:59 ` ahorn
2003-06-30 8:29 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 8:29 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 8:44 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 5:59 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 6:57 ` ahorn
2003-06-30 7:39 ` Anders Karlsson
2003-06-30 8:24 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 9:02 ` root
2003-06-30 9:17 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 15:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-30 4:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-14 20:35 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 14:24 Ricardo Galli
2003-06-29 19:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 19:58 ` Ricardo Galli
2003-06-29 20:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-29 20:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 20:57 ` Russell King
2003-06-29 21:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-30 23:14 ` David Weinehall
2003-06-29 20:02 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-06-29 20:54 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307020931260.1400-100000@humbolt.us.dell.com>
2003-07-02 16:25 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] <20030715191651.GA6946@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
2003-07-17 3:15 ` Fluke
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