On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:22:09AM +0200, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
The patent provisions are obviously insufficient for Free Software, and thus Samba.
Not only them... look at Section 5.5. of the "No Patents" agreement:
[quote]An Authorized Person's memory will be considered to be unaided if such Authorized Person has not intentionally memorized the Confidential Information for the purpose of retaining and subsequently using or disclosing it.[/quote]
But that would be missing the overall picture. The information will be made available now, and there should be no problems in the Copyright and trade secret fields, at least.
This doesn't seem like "available" or "no problem" in the copyright field...
It actually looks like an NDA, so I'm imagining software implementing the protocol without documenting, comments, readable vars/functions, etc...
Rui