Subject: Re: I2O
To: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/23/1998 13:01:52
> >From the NDA for non-members:
>
> =====
>
> AGREEMENT, 2.(b).
>
> Limited Use. The Recipient shall not use the Confidential Information, or
> any part or derivative thereof, except for the limited purpose of enabling
> Recipient to evaluate whether Recipient wishes to apply for membership in
> I2O SIG. ... In addition, Recipient shall not reverse engineer the
> Confidential Information in any manner.
That states what the non-members can do when evaluating the spec, when
considering the membership.
I seem to recall that there were different, but not necessarily less
bad, requirements about what you could do when you _were_ a member.
(The group that I was with at CMU went through this, which is why i
remember the difference. 8-)
cgd
(not speaking for Digital, of course.)