Subject: Re: The NetBSD developers agreement
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/03/2006 18:54:31
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:46:36AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:35:20PM -0700, Stefan Bozhilov wrote:
> > Individual developers should sign NDAs and the
> > Foundation can provide assistance, but it should not
> > be a side in the agreement.
>
> This is not always a sensible. Part of the non disclosure is that I can
> not quote the realy good examples (which did a great service to the comunity,
> but required TNF signing a contract, not all developers involved).
Which is not what the original agreement (that I wrote) was for. See,
this is yet another example of the purpose and intent of the Foundation
being perverted by someone's power trip. NetBSD's been turned into a
secret society. That is not what open source is about.