Re: [Moderator] Please hold off on iPhone SDK discussions until the rules are clarified later today
Re: [Moderator] Please hold off on iPhone SDK discussions until the rules are clarified later today
- Subject: Re: [Moderator] Please hold off on iPhone SDK discussions until the rules are clarified later today
- From: Brian Stern <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:05:32 -0400
On Oct 1, 2008, at 12:47 PM, James wrote:
Quick question, what do they mean by Released and Unreleased
software (just want the terminology correct).
While I'm not a lawyer I read those sentences several times also.
What I believe it means is that released versions of the iPhone OS are
no longer covered by the NDS. Any beta versions that some developers
might have access to would still be covered by the NDA. The NDA
covers Apple's IP not anyone elses. 'Released software' must mean
Apple's software, meaning the iPhone OS and SDK. Anything else
doesn't make any sense to me.
Thanks,
james
On Oct 1, 2008, at 12:44 PM, CocoaDev Admins wrote:
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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