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shmerltoday at 4:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

If they require an NDA, they'll probably refuse to provide it for the purpose of Linux drivers?

Unless it's just some dumb formality. I can try Linux Foundation.


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amlutotoday at 6:37 AM

This is definitely not true. It’s even sometimes possible to negotiate contract and NDA terms with Large Corporations for the specific purpose of producing open source code based on NDA specs.

Source: been there, done that.

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heavyset_gotoday at 5:22 AM

Yeah it depends on their stance, some vendors just want an entity that can be bound by contract and they could theoretically sue if you leak their docs, and the Linux Foundation can serve that role.

More info here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/nda

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