Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:24:02 -0500 | From | Thomas Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Dell vs. GPL |
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vlad@lrsehosting.com wrote: > Just for the record, US law does not work that way. No civil contract can > force you to do something illegal as Andre suggests. He's just flat wrong
He never said the NDA forced him to _do_ something _illegal_. Instead it forces him to _not do_ something _legal_.
I once had a job where I wasn't to drive the company vehicle faster than 45 MPH. Even if the speed limit is 55 MPH, I could have been fired for driving that fast.
Similar situation for Andre. Legaly he can distrubite the code in question, but he would loose future work because of it. Nobody would trust him, regardless of his reasons. He (would have) violated the NDA.
-Thomas
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