From: "Stephen Warren" <SWarren@nvidia.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, "root" <root@mail.gadugi.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:44:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DBFABB80F7FD3143A911F9E6CFD477B003CE111F@hqemmail02.nvidia.com> (raw)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
>
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:04:14 CST, root said:
> > This legislation Will be voted on in the Rules Committee
> > Jan 17 and will be presented for
> > ratification to the Full Tribal Council on February 14,
> > 2005. This legislation is designed
> > to protect trade secrets for both open source development
> > and general public licensing
> > schemes as well as proprietary technology developed in the
> > commerical sector.
>
> I fail to see how you can *possibly* have "trade secret"
> rights in open source
> software. At least not in any way interoperable with any
> other country's usage
> of the term "trade secret".
Nor is it compatible with the definitions of the words "public" and
"secret" in the English language...
--
Stephen Warren, Software Engineer, NVIDIA, Fort Collins, CO
swarren@nvidia.com http://www.nvidia.com/
swarren@wwwdotorg.org http://www.wwwdotorg.org/pgp.html
next reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 19:44 Stephen Warren [this message]
2005-01-06 20:19 ` linux-os
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2005-01-06 18:26 root
2005-01-06 18:04 root
2005-01-06 18:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 18:37 ` root
2005-01-06 19:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-12 7:03 ` christos gentsis
2005-01-12 8:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-12 17:18 ` root
2005-01-12 20:17 ` Stephen Pollei
2005-01-12 21:05 ` jmerkey
2005-01-13 8:21 ` Daniel Egger
2005-01-12 18:19 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-16 16:13 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-16 20:25 ` Werner Almesberger
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