On 13/02/07, Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeff Rollin wrote: > > Also as I understand it, they cannot work > > under NDA's, so any specs released to them would be released to the > public. > > > They say quite the opposite at > http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers_faq.html: > > Q: How are you going to write a GPL driver by signing an NDA? Is it > going to require > a binary blob or some other way of obfuscating the code? > > A: No, not at all. I have written many drivers after signing NDAs > with companies. > They are usually signed either to keep information about the device > private until it > is announced at a specific date, or to just keep the actual > specification documents > from being released to the public directly. All code created by this > NDA program > is to be released under the GPL for inclusion in the main kernel > tree, nothing > will be obfuscated at all. > > --
I see; thanks for the correction/clarification Jeff
