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| ▲ | amluto 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is definitely not true. It’s even sometimes possible to negotiate contract and NDA terms with Large Corporations for the specific purpose of producing open source code based on NDA specs. Source: been there, done that. |
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| ▲ | shmerl 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why would they need an NDA then if they would be OK with open source implementation? It's good if that's possible, it just doesn't make sense. | | |
| ▲ | amluto 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | There are all kinds of reasons. One basic example would be if the vendor has a data sheet but does not have the right to grant anyone redistribution rights to the datasheet or may even be restricted from allowing anyone to read it without an NDA. Another might be that the vendor has a general rule that their engineers don’t talk to outside people without an NDA but has decided, as a business matter, to allow the engineers to talk to a specific developer and that they want an open source driver developed. A third might be that the vendor wants to be able to have detailed conversations about proprietary implementation details of their hardware and decide later which details are going to become public. |
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| ▲ | heavyset_go 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah it depends on their stance, some vendors just want an entity that can be bound by contract and they could theoretically sue if you leak their docs, and the Linux Foundation can serve that role. More info here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/nda |
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