Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:04:14 CST, root said:

> This legislation Will be voted on in the Rules Committee Jan 17 and will be presented for 
> ratification to the Full Tribal Council on February 14, 2005. This legislation is designed 
> to protect trade secrets for both open source development and general public licensing 
> schemes as well as proprietary technology developed in the commerical sector.

I fail to see how you can *possibly* have "trade secret" rights in open source
software.  At least not in any way interoperable with any other country's usage
of the term "trade secret".

It's one thing to be smoking a peace pipe. Totally another to be smoking a
crack pipe.

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