I'm positive it's not his own NDA that is being violated, he's just
resourceful and weird things happen in China. He never made such an
agreement and is not bound by the scary little grey watermarks, and
neither are we. The only people or projects at any real risk here are
whoever leaked it and broke their NDA contract, but then Atheros would
have to be smart enough to individually tag each released PDF with an
identifier that can't be scrubbed or modified in order to trace a leak
back to its source. Considering this PDF doesn't even have the simple
options enabled for "no print" and "no cut/paste" I completely doubt
they did any of that. Also it was generated by "cairo graphics", an
open source graphics package with a PDF output generator, so it's
probably already been scrubbed or Atheros is too cheap to use real Adobe
software to generate its datasheets.
Technically most of the reverse engineering that goes on in order for
this project to exist in the first place is just as dangerous and/or
illegal. There is code from improperly packaged GPL tarballs that still
has "Broadcom Proprietary Do Not Distribute" or at least their copyright
in the headers, and Linksys/Belkin/whoever didn't get legally kicked in
the balls for it.
Basically it would cost them more to chase and enforce their NDA than it
would be worth, on a product this old. They already moved on to the
AR9xxx series, and that's what they would more likely stomp on people
for, if even.
Of course still toss in the token "We can't be involved with this type
of thing" as a good measure, but then don't negate it completely by
basically saying "but I still want these if you email me secretly" in
more or less the same sentence. You might as well have just said thanks.
Florian Fainelli wrote:
On Friday 16 July 2010 15:05:51 jason duhamell wrote:
fuck them. open source all the way.
You can express your point of view, I do not really care, but you do not have
to impact the project in its whole by violating your own NDA and pushing such
a datasheet in a public mailing-list.
What happens if Atheros wants to take down the site?
Think twice before you type Send please.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Florian Fainelli <flor...@openwrt.org>wrote:
On Friday 16 July 2010 14:59:03 Roman Yeryomin wrote:
Thanks Jason, datasheet is always valuable stuff!
Yeah especially if you are not allowed to distribute it.
Please send such stuff in private in order not to compromise the project
with
potential legal issues.
--
Florian
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