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There is no single NDA, all NDAs are different. The NDAs I've managed to negotiate regarding this issue have no such clauses. That being said, you are right th
by 4ad 13y ago
There is no single NDA, all NDAs are different. The NDAs I've managed to negotiate regarding this issue have no such clauses.
That being said, you are right that this is a valid concern and people should be careful.
- coldpie 13y agoOver at the Wine project, we forbid contributions from anyone known to have looked at Windows source code or even done significant "white box" reverse-engineering (decompiling, etc). The intellectual property law landscape is far too frightening to be worth the risk of allowing contributions from "tainted" individuals.
- userbinator 13y agoStatements like these are "legally reassuring" but it's very likely that you can get the same functionality but implemented very differently even if you looked at Windows' code. In the end it's probably another thing like piracy: everyone does it, but few would admit.