[Discussioni] Repost: GPL and NDA

[Alceste Scalas]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:17:24PM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> Ho avuto la risposta da licensing alla domanda del 18 {Agosto,Settembre}.
> 
>  From: Free Software Foundation <licensing a gnu.org>
>  To: Alessandro Rubini <rubini a gnu.org>
>  Subject: Re: GPL and NDA
>  Date: 16 Oct 2001 14:01:53 -0000
> 
> Alessandro Rubini <rubini a gnu.org> wrote:
> > Hello (please read it all before starting to reply, as I already have
> > some answers)
> > 
> > In the italian discussion list (discussioni a softwarelibero.org) one
> > member asked what happens when GPL software is enhanced by a company
> > that then requires places an NDA on all of it's own production. Is use
> > by an employee allowed or not?
> > 
> > While a thread on fsb a crynwr.com explains that distribution happens only
> > when the software crosses a legal boundary -- so internal use in a company
> > means use by employees as well, as long as they are not authorized to use
> > the software outside of the company -- our doubts are about misbehaving
> > companies.
> > 
> > If the company distributes the derived software under NDA, what of these
> > two happen?
> > 	A- the NDA is invalid and the recipient can use the GPL rights
> > 	B- the NDA is valid and the recipient cannot use the software at all
> > 		because of GPL.7 ("If you cannot ... not ... at all").
> > 
> > I thought point B above applies, since the GPL can't invalidate
> > another contract (the NDA) that the recipient signed. Other people
> > however thinks that point A applies.
>  
> A company may not distribute derived GPL software under an NDA without 
> violating the GPL and thereby contributing copyright infringement.  

Ehmm...  Confesso che non ho capito questa risposta.

Anzi, a dire il vero mi  sembra che chi ha risposto non abbia capito
la  domanda (dato  che ha  ribadito  l'unica cosa  gia` appurata:  a
priori, non e` possibile distribuire software GNU GPL'ed sotto NDA).

C'e` qualcosa che mi sfugge?

Ciao, e grazie,

Alceste
-- 
This .signature is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.                    ___________________________________ 
______________________________________) PGP information in e-mail header |
-------------- parte successiva --------------
Un allegato non testuale è stato rimosso....
Nome:        non disponibile
Tipo:        application/pgp-signature
Dimensione:  232 bytes
Descrizione: non disponibile
URL:         <http://lists.softwarelibero.it/pipermail/discussioni/attachments/20011016/b6ea188b/attachment.sig>