Re: Down with the GPL!

Not unusual, IMO. I've seen plenty of cases where lawyers are much more 
wary of GPL than its proponents. And I have to say, I wouldn't entirely 
dismiss their caution as irrelevant. As has been discussed in other 
threads, there are still some gray areas when it comes to interpreting 
what is distribution and public use.

Regards,

Lajos


DV Henkel-Wallace wrote:

> 
> I asked our law firm for their standard employee confidentiality and 
> assignment agreement for our company to use.  They are a large, 
> well-respected form used by many many startups and big companies.
> 
> It contained the following fascinating sentence:
> 
>     "I agree that I will not incorporate into any Company software
>       or otherwise deliver to Company any software code licensed
>       under the GNU GPL or LGPL or any other license that, by its
>       terms, requires or conditions the use or distribution of such
>       code on the disclosure, licensing, or distribution of any source
>       code owned or licensed by Company. "
> 
> I had this changed this to say words to the effect  that I (nor any the 
> other employee) would not incorporate third-party software that might in 
> any way affect our ability to redistribute (or not) any software without 
> permission of a company officer.  Note that the latter restricts the use 
> of Visual C++, c# etc as well!
> 
> I am astonished to find the text in a standard document.
> 
> Grr.
> 
> -g
> 
> 

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                    Lajos Moczar
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