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How can they restrict access to authorized developers but also use the MIT license? Can't any authorized developer simply post the code on the internet?
by s17n 3y ago
How can they restrict access to authorized developers but also use the MIT license? Can't any authorized developer simply post the code on the internet?
- fl0id 3y agoYou answered your own question.
- SXX 3y agoBasically to use code they provide under MIT you also need to couple it with a proprietary SDK from Nintendo. If you post any proprietary bits on internet Nintendo will eat you alive.
- kevincox 3y agoBut presumably the port touches the proprietary bits. So either A) that interface is not allowed to be distributed under the MIT license and they have a problem with Nintendo or B) the interface is fine to publish under MIT so why not make it more available?
- TillE 3y agoIt's comparable to how open source code can also be patent-encumbered. It's MIT licensed but Nintendo's NDA still applies. The license can't supersede that.
- s17n 3y agoI feel like the license definitely can supersede that - you obviously wouldn't be GPL compliant if you required everyone who got access to your code to sign an NDA, for example.
- ronsor 3y agoNintendo's NDA would only apply to people that signed the NDA. If some third party acquired the code without signing the NDA, the NDA shouldn't apply to them.