[Moderator] Please hold off on iPhone SDK discussions until the rules are clarified later today
[Moderator] Please hold off on iPhone SDK discussions until the rules are clarified later today
- Subject: [Moderator] Please hold off on iPhone SDK discussions until the rules are clarified later today
- From: CocoaDev Admins <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:44:12 -0400
For those of you who have seen
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for
released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple
inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that
others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have
filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet
another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to
help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers,
authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success,
so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a
new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week
or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain
under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.
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Please hold off on discussion of the SDK on this list until I can
verify how this is to be handled, and post another message.
Thanks
Scott
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