[Mobilepartners] Apple Dropping NDA Requirement for iPhone Software Developers

[Hal Abelson]

Uh... Let's wait until we see the agreement :)

Anyway, it's too late to do this in 6.087 for this semester.





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In reply to the message:

    Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:23:22 -0400
    From: Andrew Yu <andrewyu at MIT.EDU>

    Greetings!

    Apple finally decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement for the
    iPhone software developers. This NDA was a major hurdle for the MIT
    community members who were interested in developing iPhone native
    applications. Now that Apple no longer requires the NDA, we can
    potentially pursue developing native applications and offer classes on
    iPhone application development without subjecting the faculty, staff,
    and students to keep the iPhone SDK information confidential.

    Please see below for the official version of the announcement.

    Cheers,

    Andrew

    Begin forwarded message:
    >
    > 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.
    >


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