From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John P. Pietrzak" To: Richard Kenner Cc: rth@cygnus.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc? Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:18:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <10011022116.AA10542@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00165.html On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Richard Kenner wrote: > But _I_ am not imposing any further restrictions. You did not sign an > NDA with me. As far as I am concerned you can do anything with it > that you want. > > In that case you are violating the NDA! You can't do this without > violating one or the other. If you give it to a third party without > saying it's under the NDA ("a further restriction" and thus not permitted > by the GPL), you are violating the NDA. > Well, that sounds like the solution to the problem, then. What you've got here is a case of people following the rules of the GPL, violating their NDA, and not having the NDA enforced against them. So long as no-one enforces the NDA, what's the problem? --John