Nondisclosure agreement in S# licence?

[Sascha Dördelmann]

Here's a question from comp.lang.ruby about the S# licence.

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&threadm=3E6D5307.3080001%40zerosphere.org&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.ruby

>> Someone suggested C#; .NET isn't only C# and VB. You could also try
>> out .NET with Smallscript (S#, Smalltalk for .NET).

> This intrigued me, and I went to
> http://www.smallscript.net
> but it is quite difficult to make out what is what.
> Yet, I think you have to agree to a 100k pdf license
> for anything from that site, and it appears to me
> to say you promise to keep everything about the
> language and so forth confidential. This puzzles me
> a bit; what good is a language that you can't talk
> about ? But I am not a lawyer, and I might be
> completely misunderstanding it:
>
> http://www.smallscript.net/Downloads/SmallScript-TP-LicenseAgreement.pdf

I don't want to provide my own interpretation because it might be
wrong. I would appreciate if someone else could answer the question.

Cheers
Sascha

[David Simmons]

That license was written for the original pre-release in 2001.

There is nothing in the written materials or samples that you are limited to
for the purposes of discussion or demonstration. The license and related
materials will be revised when the next updated coinciding with the S#.NET
tech-preview release is made available.

-- Dave S. [www.smallscript.org]

"Sascha Dördelmann" <ws...@onlinehome.de> wrote in message
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[Sascha Dördelmann]

"David Simmons" <david....@smallscript.com> wrote:
> [ That license ... ]

Thank you for the informations. I've cited you in comp.lang.ruby.

Cheers
Sascha