iPhone SDK の NDA解禁か!?

iphone NDA

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.


We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.


However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.


Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.

"To our developers"ですが、早速mootohさんが翻訳してくれてます。
http://iphone-dev.g.hatena.ne.jp/moira/20081001/1222876283

"iPhone Software" は、Apple製品のiPhone SDK自体を指すのではないか、という解釈がどうも良い気がします。が、実際にこのagreementが出てみないことには、という感じでしょうか。

でも署名活動なんかをしていた身としては非常にありがたいです。これで、ここにも技術的な詳細をいろいろ書ける可能性と、開発しているNatsuLiphoneがソース公開できる可能性が出てきました。ソースコードは、新しいagreementが出次第(問題なければ)、githubとかで公開しようかと思います。