I'm the person who signed the NDA that I will not disclose the secret proprietary API for that ground station, so while others might substitute their own API, I

I'm the person who signed the NDA that I will not disclose the secret proprietary API for that ground station, so while others might substitute their own API, I would have to deliver things as a broken non-compilable project, which is sure to raise questions. And yes, I did eventually succeed in resolving the copyright violation. But it was still a lot of work for me which I could have avoided entirely by keeping my source code secret.