erland;323709 Wrote: > Is the NDA the same thing as the license agreement you agree on when > downloading the SDK ? Or is the NDA a separate thing only to those > paying the $99 to be able to distribute the binaries through AppStore > ? > 2.1 Confidential Nature of SDK The SDK is Apple Confidential Information and subject to the confidentiality obligations of this Agreement. Distribution of Applications created with the SDK is not permitted absent a separate agreement with Apple 5.1 ...You further agree not to disclose or disseminate Apple Confidential Information to anyone, or to discuss anything about the Apple Confidential Information with anyone, other than those of Your employees and contractors who have a need to know and who are bound by a written agreement that prohibits unauthorized use or disclosure of the Confidential Information,...
My understanding is: If you've got a closed group of developers who have either - signed that agreement or - have signed up on a mutual agreement that ensures confidentiality You are fine. Open discussions or open code disclosure are not. > > I really wish the iPhone would have been surrounded by the same open > source philosophy as we have around the Squeezebox products, but I > guess Apple is Apple so that would be a bit too good. Well, it depends. Of course it would be good if they were as open about their systems. But on the other hand, they DO provide you with a lot of support stuff which the SqueezeStuff is not so particularly strong at: Documentation, commented sample code, libraries etc. In the end, they're a bit bigger... So if you go WITHOUT all that, you should be able to share your code freely. But I don't think a lot of people do so, so far. You would have to build up a whole open source framework first, which you can't, since Apple's limited license breaks GPL so you cannot use anything published under GPL, at least V3. That's one of the reasons why I use LGPL on iPeng, GPL is way too dogmatic. And with Apple thats two rather dogmatic parties hitting each other then... -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
