MorphOS Developer
Posts: 619 from 2005/8/27
From: the land with ...
@humantarget
First off I'm quite impressed that you are actually replying here, that takes guts, however there still seems to be missing the crucial component this thread originally called for...
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If Petro just handed you code, and you used it, say, in a product, without a license, Amiga Technologies or Escom could absolutely come after you for copyright violation (they might have to go after Petro, too, as part of that process).
But that is an entirely different claim than the one you made earlier, in which you claimed that just seeing aforementioned code constitutes a copyright infringement, which is just plain silly.
When companies give outsiders access to their secrets they usually make them sign NDAs, and the reason for this is of course to legally bind them to not use this knowledge outside the scope initially intended (NDAs also usually contain an anti-competetive clause). Without such a document they would have no legal way to stop a person using this knowledge in any way (except verbatim; this is where copyright infringement comes in).
If there was reasonable doubt a person without a currently binding NDA (they all have an expiry date) had used such knowledge
verbatim you could at best get a court order for a source review, you can't go around claiming copyright infringement, that would be considered libel.
Anyway, since you say you believe Ralph this should all be considered moot, there's just those three final words missing...
- CISC
