Episode 0x0D: NDAs

This episode is a recording of Karen's talk, Sign on the
Dotted Line: NDAs and Free and Open Source Software from the 2011
Linux Collaboration Summit.

Show Notes:

Segment 1 (01:33)

You can download a copy of
Karen's slides from the talk if you'd like to follow along.

Here's a listener donated transcription of one of the questions:

[23:14]

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Signed up
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At Google you can opt out.
Some of the people are
You cannot actually [indistinct]

[29:53]
On some NDAs you can have sections that say you are not allowed to
use open source software and not allowed to write open source
software, but the company is hiring you to do exactly this.

[30:12]
In NDAs. I'm a consultant, and so I get a lot of NDAs on my desk. I
know at least 5 large semiconductor companies who have this paragraph
inside that forbid you to look at open source software and its clear
that open source software is a clause for the death penalty when
they're hiring you as a consultant to write drivers in the Linux
kernel.

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