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<h1>Re: Yet more Non Disclosure Agreements.</h1>
<b>Rogier Wolff</b> (<a href="mailto:R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl"><i>R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl</i></a>)<br>
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Dave Restall - System Administrator wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Hi,</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I've now received a new NDA from PIE and as I'm not well versed in NDA's</i><br>
<i>&gt; I would like a second opinion on it's text, consequently, I'd like to</i><br>
<i>&gt; post a copy of the NDA to the list (it's about 10k long), are there any</i><br>
<i>&gt; major objections to this ? I have asked the permission of PIE to post</i><br>
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I don't mind, as long as it isn't much longer than a few megabytes.<br>
But I'm not average.... :-)<br>
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<i>&gt; it and they modified it slightly from original when I stressed that I</i><br>
<i>&gt; wanted it to develop a SANE driver and release the drivers under GPL.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; So far, PIE seem to have been very positive, a few quotes :-</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; The aim of this agreement is just to ensure that the document that we will</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; send to you will not be distributed to anybody else without our consent.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Anybody who wish to have a copy of the same document will have to ask us,</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; and we will provide it to him after he signs an identical Non Disclosure</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Agreement.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; The drivers or other software that you will develop using this</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; documentation, can be distributed freely.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; They would also like information back from me about how other vendors</i><br>
<i>&gt; deal with NDA's and SANE etc. In response to my previous mail, many</i><br>
<i>&gt; people mentioned HP, Mustek etc. for this I have two questions :-</i><br>
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Some (e.g. Intel) allow you to use the docs to write GPL code. Some<br>
feel they must explicitly have the above paragraph in the NDA. Others<br>
don't.<br>
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<i>&gt; 1) Could other people respond with details about how other suppliers</i><br>
<i>&gt; divulge information.</i><br>
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Some of the stubborn vendors (e.g. Diamond, Netscape) were<br>
contractually bound not to divulge specifics of what they were<br>
selling. (Diamond had not designed the card they were stubborn about<br>
themselves. Netscape can't ship Java or Encryption under NPL. )<br>
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Others are just stubborn. The trick seems to be to find the right<br>
person inside the organization who will just put the docs on the<br>
copier and ship them to you. Don't get those in trouble by publishing<br>
what you got, and telling everybody who you got it from.<br>
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Roger.<br>
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