Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > Fred's pretty silly for not having looked into this in the first place. > Especially being a lawyer.
That's not the point. The point is that demanding disclosure is like demanding payment: it's NOT FREE. The point is not that Fred is trapped; it's that he *would* be trapped, he's NOT FREE, he is *BOUND*. > Consider Frank the lawyer who takes some nice source code from a GPLed > project, and adds some code his friend was telling him under NDA. He > puts it up on the web, and suddenly gets demands for source code from > the original author. What does he do, violate the NDA, or the copyright > license??? What does he do?!? The GPL doesn't have such a rule. The GPL doesn't force him to honor such a demand. The GPL is a free software license.
